Hugo - '88You did not go through Rita or Ike or Charley, did you?
Hazel- '54
Those were 2 badass storms
Those were hurricanes though. This is ten continuous days of relentless rain. Some of it influenced by Joachin, but this was going on before Joachin showed up.
As anyone who's lived in a desert knows, when the water can't run off it accumulates. This is no desert, and it takes a lot to saturate the ground. But keep the water coming for a week and a half, and that point is reached.
It's been mercifully less intense this weekend than the dire NOAA predictions had it. Another day or two we may see what the sun looks like again. But my tomatoes are just toast at this point. Or more accurately --- a viscous, glutinous vegetative mass of jelloesque corruption and putrescence.
Better the tomatoes then you, Pogo. You're still alive and have the opportunity to get right with God. How great is the mercy of God! Joachim was sent by the LORD. I made a thread about Joachim here on USMB when it was just a teensy weensy tropical out in the ocean - you people need to pay closer attention. Ya'll really do not listen very well!
Actually Joachin was sent by a convergence of air masses like every other tropical storm since thousands of years before God was invented.
Jesus sent my tomatoes to hell. What did they ever do?