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Post by High Sierra Fan on Jul 9, 2019 14:30:22 GMT -8
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Post by Hungry Jack on Jul 9, 2019 18:18:45 GMT -8
Those videos are surreal
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Post by tomas on Jul 10, 2019 3:50:40 GMT -8
Yea, Monday was an interesting day around here. I typically end up on Canal Road as part of my final leg into DC and I missed the flash flood by a couple of hours.
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Post by reuben on Jul 10, 2019 6:16:35 GMT -8
The floods skipped by me as well.
"Canal Road" - ha ha.
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Post by tomas on Jul 10, 2019 6:29:03 GMT -8
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Post by reuben on Jul 10, 2019 9:49:23 GMT -8
Roughly 18 inches of rain are set to hit my friends in Louisiana on Saturday-Sunday. They live in the Lafayette to Baton Rouge areas. South central LA. I talked with one friend about a month ago who said that he was getting to and from his house via his canoe. Storm surge of 3 to 5 feet along the coast. For those of you who know her, CajunHiker lives in that area.
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Jul 10, 2019 9:57:47 GMT -8
We had a deluge like that late one afternoon a few years ago. My 5" rain gauge overfilled within 2 hours. Before I went to bed, I went outside to check on level of the creek. As I stepped outside, something looked weird, but I couldn't quite figure out what. Then I realized that instead of being within the banks, the creek had flooded and the water was just a few feet from me. Yikes!
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Post by davesenesac on Jul 11, 2019 8:07:38 GMT -8
Most impressive. Two inch storms are common while 5 inches rare.
Large mega-thunderstorms especially in the Midwest can produce incredibly strong rain in limited areas below highest miles high towering anvils. In rare situations such storms may not be moving and drop intense rain in local areas. Here in California, most of our state sees few thunderstorms however due to orographic lift of moist air into higher colder altitudes they are common over high areas of Sierra Nevada, as well as throughout the West at high western ranges like the Rockies.
Although our Sierra thunderstorms tend to be smaller than those in the East, when we receive Mexican Monsoon flows up from tropical Baja California, large storms may occur that may repeatedly storm over days. When during afternoon's lower elevation hot valley air expands around mountain ranges, it pushes air up mountain canyons causing familiar afternoon up canyon wind. When such wind reaches tallest crest areas of a range, it will bend upward into the sky that may push moister higher elevation atmospheric layers above it to colder levels and produce cumulus clouds that may develop into thunderstorms. On rare occasions when such higher atmospheric layers are stagnant, not moving, wind moving up canyons on all sides of a peak may create thunderstorms that just sit in local spots dumping dumping precipitation over longer periods. The above image shows Red Slate Mountain at 13.1k after one such storm leaving the peak white with hail while nearby areas have much less.
Our high mountain storms though usually smaller, tend to have more lightning, thunder, and small hail because peaks are closer to electrical zones in thunderstorm clouds and falling hail doesn't have enough time to melt. The worst storm I've experienced inside a tent was in 2016 when camped at 10.4k near Red and White Mountain. A thunderstorm was static over my camp dropping 5 inches of hail over a couple hours making landscapes look like snow. The intense hail drove water through tent seams where I'd never had leaks and the inside of my tent was full of mist from hail pounding condensing water from the inside surface of my rain fly into the air. Thus my sleeping bag and gear was getting not only wet but it was cold maybe in the lower 40F's. I struggled to keep the inside my tent dry, wondered how long it would last, and realized if it just sat above for say 3 hours and got everything wet, a person might die from exposure. I also became afraid there might be hail avalanches down nearby steep bedrock canyon walls that could bury my position.
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Post by autumnmist on Jul 11, 2019 8:30:15 GMT -8
The weather this year has been soooo extreme, and we're just entering the second half. I don't want to think about how bad it'll get, but I think it's appropriate to do so to be prepared for literally anything.
Anyone know if there's a foldable, inflatable canoe I can start carrying in my car? And I'm thinking of building a dry dock in my yard; it may come in hand when it's needed as a wet dock if the street and yard flood.
And obviously the basement gets cleared out of anything valuable except those items like the freezer.
I think it's time for a New Orleans visit before another disaster washes away part of the city.
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Post by rebeccad on Jul 11, 2019 8:49:18 GMT -8
autumnmist, you need a Packraft! That’s what Mike uses when roaming around parts of Alaska where sometimes you have to take to the water, so it’s small enough to carry and large enough to hold a person and a pack.
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Post by gabby on Jul 11, 2019 9:03:39 GMT -8
davesenesac , that post is sinister. I already use so many of your photos as screen backgrounds, and you just had to post that one! Your trip reports are like chocolate bonbons. "Just one won't hurt!" ETA: French Impressionism ...
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Post by davesenesac on Jul 11, 2019 14:11:05 GMT -8
The original image of those quaking aspen leaves is 6000 by 4000 pixels while the one you posted above is downsized to only 952 pixels wide. The one below is downsized to 2000 pixels wide or enough to fill a 1080p display for a screen saver (mouse select to enlarge in another window then use Snipping Tool to capture):
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