Darn Rain....You Be Scary....4-5" In A Hour

[1srelluc]

UPDATE: Severe Flooding in Waterlick: Major Road Closures – Road Open

Heavy rainfall led to severe flooding in the Waterlick area, causing significant disruptions and road closures. Around 4-5 inches of rain fell in just one hour, inundating the 6,000 block of Strasburg Road. The downpour overwhelmed the area, leading to substantial water buildup on the roadway...

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Moss Creek might be a couple feet wide even during a wet Spring. It's usually just a bunch of slightly wet rocks this time of year.

About 1430 I heard all this thunder and look out to the NW and this huge black cloud was visible.....I figured good, some much needed rain is headed my way.....Then it just sat there for a good hour before it made it way where we got maybe 1/8".

A friend who lives out that way said he had not seen anything like it in 20+ years.

I've seen rains like that before but mostly in the coastal areas.....4-5" of rain in a hour is a MFer when it comes off the mountains. Signal Knob is just above the place.

 

[odanny]

It's the new normal. While the Western U.S. is scorching and on fire, the Midwest sees downpours that are always short and very intense, rains like 4" in an hour are not unusual here, you just hope it don't happen often. These intense cells are usually pretty small and your chances of getting hit are too.

A couple years ago a nearby town got 11" in one night, everyones basement flooded and insurance wouldn't cover any of it.

 

[JGalt]

I didn't even put in a garden this year because of all the rain. My driveway has been washed out and full of ruts all Summer too. We had the neighbor run a drag blade over it but it washed out again.

That darned Crick must have made one hell of a sacrifice to his damned climate change gods.

 

[1srelluc]

It's the new normal. While the Western U.S. is scorching and on fire, the Midwest sees downpours that are always short and very intense, rains like 4" in an hour are not unusual here, you just hope it don't happen often. These intense cells are usually pretty small and your chances of getting hit are too.

A couple years ago a nearby town got 11" in one night, everyones basement flooded and insurance wouldn't cover any of it.

We had one hit like that to the south of me that came off the mountains and flooded scores of walk-down basements. Of the people I knew that got flooded their HO insurance paid for it.

They said it was like a sheet of water/debris about 8" high that came down off the mountain behind them. It was actually the debris that caused the basements to flood. Most had drains at the bottom of the steps but they quickly got clogged up.

LOL.....They all had bulkworks (like a extra step) installed around where the basement entrance was. Of course there has not been a rain like it since.

 

[Auld Phart]

more thunderstorms in n. NH starting at noon,

 

[jotathought]

UPDATE: Severe Flooding in Waterlick: Major Road Closures – Road Open

Heavy rainfall led to severe flooding in the Waterlick area, causing significant disruptions and road closures. Around 4-5 inches of rain fell in just one hour, inundating the 6,000 block of Strasburg Road. The downpour overwhelmed the area, leading to substantial water buildup on the roadway...

royalexaminer.com

Moss Creek might be a couple feet wide even during a wet Spring. It's usually just a bunch of slightly wet rocks this time of year.

About 1430 I heard all this thunder and look out to the NW and this huge black cloud was visible.....I figured good, some much needed rain is headed my way.....Then it just sat there for a good hour before it made it way where we got maybe 1/8".

A friend who lives out that way said he had not seen anything like it in 20+ years.

I've seen rains like that before but mostly in the coastal areas.....4-5" of rain in a hour is a MFer when it comes off the mountains. Signal Knob is just above the place.

This is in Virginia?

 

[1srelluc]

This is in Virginia?

Yep.

 

[Crick]

In 1985 in Florida we got 30 inches of rain in 24 hours from an unnamed storm. Water in my front yard was 3 feet deep with water mocassins and balls of fire ants floating around.

 

[1srelluc]

In 1985 in Florida we got 30 inches of rain in 24 hours from an unnamed storm. Water in my front yard was 3 feet deep with water mocassins and balls of fire ants floating around.

Sounds like a good time....Other than the fire ants.

 

[Natural Citizen]

I remember the big flood in Damascus Va back in the 70s. They had to clear the whole town out and move em all to high ground.

Was interesting to stand on top of the mountain and look down at it all afterward.

They took us out in one of those amphibious vehicles.

I was actually enjoying it for some reason. I kept yelling for the guy to blow the horn but he just said will somebody shut that damned kid up.

 

[1srelluc]

I remember the big flood in Damascus Va back in the 70s. They had to clear the whole town out and move em all to high ground.

Was interesting to stand on top of the mountain and look down at it all afterward.

They took us out in one of those amphibious vehicles.

I was actually enjoying it for some reason. I kept yelling for the guy to blow the horn but he just said will somebody shut that damned kid up.

A old guy I worked with had his whole family wiped out in the Nelson County, Virginia flood when hurricane Camille stalled over the area back in '69.

A whose side of a mountain slid off and buried them under several yards of dirt/rocks....They never found the bodies.

 

[ReinyDays]

I lived in Central America but that didn't prepare me for an Iowa cloud burst ... holy shit ...

 

[Crick]

I lived in Central America but that didn't prepare me for an Iowa cloud burst ... holy shit ...

I was in a downpour in South Miami in 1971 driving my girlfriend's Camaro and the rain was so intense, I couldn't see the front end of the hood.

 

[odanny]

Imagine what the stories will sound like in 15 years.

 

[ding]

A old guy I worked with had his whole family wiped out in the Nelson County, Virginia flood when hurricane Camille stalled over the area back in '69.

A whose side of a mountain slid off and buried them under several yards of dirt/rocks....They never found the bodies.

Camille was a beast. I lived in Buras when it hit. We evacuated the day before. 200 mph winds. 14 ft of water. The house was probably knocked by the wind and then washed away by the water.

 

[1srelluc]

Imagine what the stories will sound like in 15 years.

Nothing like Camille.....I remember the water level in the Shenandoah River topped the 1930s flood the oldtimers talked about. I think it was 1935 or so.

The river was so high that the N&W Railroad parked cars filled with coal on these two bridges to hold them down....They both made it.

I caught many a fish right there.....That little sycamore tree is now about 7' across.

In the mid 1700s through the early 1830s there was a ferry there. Then they built a low water bridge about 500 yards upstream from the train bridge in the background.

They say flatboats plied the Shenandoah all the way to the Potomac back then as the water level was much higher. Towns and both light and heavy industry took its toll on the median water level.

 

[odanny]

Every location in the country has a record book for the hottest days ever recorded, where I live, the hottest days ever recorded were the summer of 1936. Every record came from the year, I've heard of stories of people sleeping outdoors in parks that summer, homes were too hot to sleep in. We don't get hurricanes and the chance of seeing a deadly tornado are low with radar advance warnings, even if it hits at night you know one might be coming.

 

[odanny]

They say flatboats plied the Shenandoah all the way to the Potomac back then as the water level was much higher. Towns and both light and heavy industry took its toll on the median water level.

I would have loved to see the Mississippi of Mark Twain, described as it was by Clemens, which was accurate for that time. It was a huge, wild river, when it floods now it is just trying to revert to nature.

 

[1srelluc]

Every location in the country has a record book for the hottest days ever recorded, where I live, the hottest days ever recorded were the summer of 1936. Every record came from the year, I've heard of stories of people sleeping outdoors in parks that summer, homes were too hot to sleep in. We don't get hurricanes and the chance of seeing a deadly tornado are low with radar advance warnings, even if it hits at night you know one might be coming.

My mom's home place was near a creek and in the hot summertime they would sleep on the front porch to catch the breeze off the creek....Her neighbors did the same.

 

[odanny]

My mom's home place was near a creek and in the hot summertime they would sleep on the front porch to catch the breeze off the creek....Her neighbors did the same.

Back in the day, folks could handle adversity, I cannot imagine the current generation dealing with a fraction of what they had to. On the other hand, many parts of the country didn't get broiling hot in the summer.