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Jaker said:
I wish we would get some rain in Cali.
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You already have people in Cali wanting to build a pipeline from the Mississippi River to Cali. Maybe Cali can contract out east coasters to bucket water and transport them to California. No flooding on the east coast and water on the west coast.
 
My area of Norwalk got rocked with rain. Four inches in four hours.

Our nearby rivers and streams are OK, just a lot of loose ground, gravel and dirt all over the main streets.

Pissed at our neighbors: instead of repaving their driveway, they covered it with loose gravel. With the heavy rain and water flow, all of that gravel that was sitting on the asphalt washed onto our driveway and yard.

I haven't seen rain like this since I witnessed the monsoon rains of the Philippines.
 
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Oh, and our city garbage can is missing and we found a fish on our yard!
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Tons of debris from the small stream in my backyard washed into a corner of my yard. As I talked about in a different thread, my neighbor is all bent out of shape because with all the heavy rain we’ve been having the storm drain in my yard has been becoming overwhelmed and backed up mud has run into his yard from ours under the fence.

Town dropped off absorbent “sandbags”for me to use to line the fence and divert water. Well the neighbors pool was brown again this morning. Wife and I are eagerly awaiting the lawsuit. Instead of coming after us because we’ve had 3 tropical storms come through in a week and half, come after the pool company who let you put an inground pool in a low lying swamp.
 
Got about 5" here in MA. Seems those of you south of us saw a bit more. Weirdly, it's cold.

 
If I see videos of NYC rats like building rafts or doing the 200m freestyle in the sewers I might consider fleeing the northeast lol
 
Cuse Socks said:
If I see videos of NYC rats like building rafts or doing the 200m freestyle in the sewers I might consider fleeing the northeast lol
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Watch "New York City Flood Subway NYC RAT goes for a swim Hurricane Ida Viral Tik Tok" on YouTube
 
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Neighbors apartment in Queens flooded, we had water up to our door, the drain wasn't draining fast enough but never seen it rain that hard that fast. Think it was rained 3 inches in an hour at one point. All the businesses and apartments with basements below ground all got flooded. Wild
 
Very high water table in my town (and my area in particular). So happy we put a French drain in when we renovated our basement. Pump was going every couple minutes all night, but everything is dry.
 
'went for a walk before dinner. kinda eery vibe with scattered drops. just plain odd. i look over aboot fifty or so yards and see a coyote (wolf) youth, aboot 30-40 lbs, wandering out from the treeline.'
nature don't lie.
the jig was up days ago. hangin out with some pals tuesday eve, i hear the usual 'what r u lookin at so intensely?' i sez 'the sky.' i don't recall seeing a cloud pattern so messed up before. i don't know what it means, but it is beyond weird...'
good call, tv 'weather forecasters.' they should look up every now and then. might learn something. i mean, it's not like twisters weren't tearing up the mid atlantic earlier, or were they?
props to karstenkibbe fer having a brain. and posting the truth.
 
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ClifSpliffy said:
'went for a walk before dinner. kinda eery vibe with scattered drops. just plain odd. i look over aboot fifty or so yards and see a coyote (wolf) youth, aboot 30-40 lbs, wandering out from the treeline.'
nature don't lie.
the jig was up days ago. hangin out with some pals tuesday eve, i hear the usual 'what r u lookin at so intensely?' i sez 'the sky.' i don't recall seeing a cloud pattern so messed up before. i don't know what it means, but it is beyond weird...'
good call, tv 'weather forecasters.' they should look up every now and then. might learn something. i mean, it's not like twisters weren't tearing up the mid atlantic earlier, or were they?
props to karstenkibbe fer having a brain. and posting the truth.
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Thanks dude. The writing was on the wall in our area for days about the potential damage that a sub tropical Ida, combined with the front off the coast, could cause. By the way, for those of you in CT and throughout southern New England, @Eweather13 is a great follow on Twitter if you get geeked out on weather.
 
Kitaman said:
On August 29th 2005 Katrina hit New Orleans as a Cat 3 (was 5 at sea).

Ida is now a Cat 4 expected to make landfall in New Orleans area Sunday.

Those in its path stay safe, it looks scary!

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Today is the 86th anniversary of the Labor Day Keys Hurricane in 1935. Central barometric pressure of 892mb, lowest in the Atlantic basin. Sustained winds of 195mph with gusts to 215.

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1935 Labor Day hurricane - Wikipedia

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CONN78SEJ said:
The decade of the 1930’s, otherwise remembered as “The Dirty Thirties” is still the warmest decade on record in the United States. The record highs set then are still records. North Dakota 121F, New York City 106F, among them.
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Add this to it:
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Storms like Ida are a great reminder of why terms like Cat 1,2,3,4,5 are mostly headline grabbers. Aside from the massive hurrricanes like Michael where winds were 130-150 mph, wind doesn't destroy communities and lives like water and rain.

Size of the storm, consistency of the rain bands and speed of the storm are much better indicators of how much damage will be done by a storm.

I took from mid afternoon Saturday until Thursday morning to move from Louisiana to New England. It was a very slow moving storm which had nothing from the south, west or northwest to move it along. Just kinda meandered through the Appalachians.
 
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Chin Diesel said:
Storms like Ida are a great reminder of why terms like Cat 1,2,3,4,5 are mostly headline grabbers. Aside from the massive hurrricanes like Michael where winds were 130-150 mph, wind doesn't destroy communities and lives like water and rain.

Size of the storm, consistency of the rain bands and speed of the storm are much better indicators of how much damage will be done by a storm.

I took from mid afternoon Saturday until Thursday morning to move from Louisiana to New England. It was a very slow moving storm which had nothing from the south, west or northwest to move it along. Just kinda meandered through the Appalachians.
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Come to think of it, I can't remember what Cat Sandy was. I vividly remember the damage done to my neighborhood and house though.

Went to Amelia Island a couple of years ago, and there was still reminders of the hurricane (Matthew?). Locals there didn't talk about Cat numbers when describing it. I would bet Katrina victims don't talk Cat either.

Just saying when you've been 'touched' by a bad hurricane no one I know talks Cat numbers; just damage, gratefulness and recovery.
 
Kitaman said:
Come to think of it, I can't remember what Cat Sandy was. I vividly remember the damage done to my neighborhood and house though.

Went to Amelia Island a couple of years ago, and there was still reminders of the hurricane (Matthew?). Locals there didn't talk about Cat numbers when describing it. I would bet Katrina victims don't talk Cat either.

Just saying when you've been 'touched' by a bad hurricane no one I know talks Cat numbers; just damage, gratefulness and recovery.
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good point. You'll sometimes see buildings which survive these storms with markers on the wall showing how high the water rose inside it. I don't ever remember seeing walls or other markings showing the maximum winds sustained by the same structure.

It is important for those who are in the storm area to know what the maximum wind speed may be but that's almost more of a crap shoot since very few in the area will actually experience winds at that top speed. Many more feel the effects of the rain directly and then the flooding of buildings, waterways and utility infrastructure.
 
Kitaman said:
Come to think of it, I can't remember what Cat Sandy was. I vividly remember the damage done to my neighborhood and house though.

Went to Amelia Island a couple of years ago, and there was still reminders of the hurricane (Matthew?). Locals there didn't talk about Cat numbers when describing it. I would bet Katrina victims don't talk Cat either.

Just saying when you've been 'touched' by a bad hurricane no one I know talks Cat numbers; just damage, gratefulness and recovery.
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Sandy was a Cat 1
 
Chin Diesel said:
Storms like Ida are a great reminder of why terms like Cat 1,2,3,4,5 are mostly headline grabbers. Aside from the massive hurrricanes like Michael where winds were 130-150 mph, wind doesn't destroy communities and lives like water and rain.

Size of the storm, consistency of the rain bands and speed of the storm are much better indicators of how much damage will be done by a storm.

I took from mid afternoon Saturday until Thursday morning to move from Louisiana to New England. It was a very slow moving storm which had nothing from the south, west or northwest to move it along. Just kinda meandered through the Appalachians.
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Yes mostly, it’s very rare when a Cat 5 Hurricane hits the coastline with full Cat 5 intensity though there are several examples. In addition to the 1935 Labor Day Keys Hurricane, Hurricane Andrew did tremendous wind damage throughout central Florida and is one of very very few storms that intensified after landfall. Camille in 1969 also hit with tremendous Cat 5 wind damage and a 34 foot storm surge. The 1938 Hurricane that hit New England and killed 800 people on Long Island was a Cat 5 but weakened well before landfall, though gusts of 185 mph were still recorded in coastal Massachusetts. On a side note, in the aftermath of the 1935 Keys hurricane all the wind measuring devices were blown away however engineers calculated from the catastrophic damage that the winds approached 220 mph. The most intense hurricanes world wide were Patricia, Cyclone Zoe and Cyclone Winston (South Pacific) and Cyclone Monica (Australia). Patricia holds several measured records for barometric pressure (which is what causes the storm surge) and wind speed. If the 1935 Labor Day keys storm could have been measured by the technologies we have today it probably would have surpassed Patricia in the record books.
 
CONN78SEJ said:
Yes mostly, it’s very rare when a Cat 5 Hurricane hits the coastline with full Cat 5 intensity though there are several examples. In addition to the 1935 Labor Day Keys Hurricane, Hurricane Andrew did tremendous wind damage throughout central Florida and is one of very very few storms that intensified after landfall. Camille in 1969 also hit with tremendous Cat 5 wind damage and a 34 foot storm surge. The 1938 Hurricane that hit New England and killed 800 people on Long Island was a Cat 5 but weakened well before landfall, though gusts of 185 mph were still recorded in coastal Massachusetts. On a side note, in the aftermath of the 1935 Keys hurricane all the wind measuring devices were blown away however engineers calculated from the catastrophic damage that the winds approached 220 mph. The most intense hurricanes world wide were Patricia, Cyclone Zoe and Cyclone Winston (South Pacific) and Cyclone Monica (Australia). Patricia holds several measured records for barometric pressure (which is what causes the storm surge) and wind speed. If the 1935 Labor Day keys storm could have been measured by the technologies we have today it probably would have surpassed Patricia in the record books.
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Don't forget about Michael in 2018.

#3 behind Andrew and Camille.

Hurricane Michael - Wikipedia
 
nothing aboot this one is 'over,' down there.
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