The wind has been a non-event in my area, but I have never seen it rain so hard for so long. Since the ground had already been saturated by the wettest August on record, there is nowhere for the water to go, and there is minor flooding all over. Flooding may get worse as the rivers rise with the flows from upstream.
Dan Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 9:29 AM, John Sessoms <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com> wrote: > While it was a non-event for me personally, I don't want to make light of > the effect it might have had on others. > > The high winds, even at Cat 1, were enough to topple trees & killed at least > 2 people here in NC. And beyond the property damage, the flooding endangers > human lives as well. > > Something else I heard on the news is the wind-speeds quoted are "surface > winds". The speed increases above the surface & in NYC poses a danger to > high-rise buildings from blowing out the glass, so that you have a danger > inside from wind driven broken glass & a danger below from falling glass. > > And I heard that the NYC subway system has been shut down for the first time > ever due to the danger of storm surge driven flooding. I don't reckon it > would take too many feet of surge to put some station entrances under water. > I'm sure they have pumps to empty the system out, but I doubt they have the > capacity to handle the mass of water that could introduce. At least not in > the short term. > > > From: "P. J. Alling" >> >> I'm just getting a little tired of the hype, Irene is most likely to >> come ashore as a category one, maybe even as a tropical storm, dangerous >> yes, but unless you actually live in a flood zone, it's probably better >> to stay put rather than evacuate. When this proves to be a meh event, >> it will be much harder to get people pay attention when that category >> four shows up to smash things... >> >> On 8/27/2011 2:11 PM, John Sessoms wrote: >>> >>> From: Christine Aguila >>>> >>>> Stay safe, John! cheers, Christine >>> >>> It's pretty much been a non-event around here so far. There's some >>> news of flooding down east, but it doesn't look like even that's too >>> serious. >>> >>> I'm sure there's a good bit of property damage, but it looks like it's >>> more from there being a lot denser population in eastern NC now than >>> in the days of the legendary hurricanes like Hazel. More property >>> there to be damaged, rather than from the power of this storm. >>> >>> The greatest effect for me personally is I got distracted checking the >>> weather & forgot what I was doing. Diced my tomato instead of slicing >>> it, so I ended up using it to make an omelet instead of a BLT >>> sandwich. 8-D > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
