davesenesac
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Post by davesenesac on Aug 30, 2021 13:58:39 GMT -8
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2021 18:13:50 GMT -8
We'll get remnants of Ida through here (Just west of DC) on Wednesday. Parts of WV, VA, and MD expecting 2" - 6" of rain. Should make creek crossings in WV highlands interesting over the Labor day weekend. Glad I don't go anywhere on holidays.
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walkswithblackflies
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Sept 2, 2021 6:08:33 GMT -8
Tornadoes, damaging straight-line winds, and massive flooding from Philadelphia to Boston. ErnieW , BigLoad , High Sierra Fan ... you guys OK?
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Post by BigLoad on Sept 2, 2021 6:47:42 GMT -8
I'm OK so far, although a big chunk of my staff is out today with home flooding and parts of my neighborhood are without power.
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Post by absarokanaut on Sept 2, 2021 7:53:27 GMT -8
Hoping all you folks out there do Ok with this onslaught. I couldn't believe the video I saw of water rushing into a Subway Station in New York. Stay safe folks!
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Hungry Jack
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Post by Hungry Jack on Sept 2, 2021 18:55:13 GMT -8
Wish IDA would make her way to the Sierra!
Out of curiosity I took a look at the streamflow data for Aravaipa Creek, which is northeast of Tucson and the Catalinas. The have had an active monsoon in SE AZ.
Aravaipa Creek hit ~500 CFS on August 31! It typically runs about 15 CFS, or ankle/shin-deep in most places. 100 CFS would probably allow you to run a kayak down it.
It dropped quickly back to about 15 late in the day, and then spike back to about 250 CFS the next day.
Peaks were right after midnight, so I guess there must be a 6-8 hour lag in flows if the water is coming from the basin on the western slope of Mt. Graham.
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Post by reuben on Sept 3, 2021 14:10:30 GMT -8
Well, our Ida remnants included a F2 or F3 tornado which tore through a section of nearby woods and caused all sorts of other damage to houses, businesses, etc. Fortunately, this time, the house is OK, unlike a previous storm. A friend in PA got some basement flooding, as did another friend in MA, near Boston, and they're pumping out. That's a pretty long stretch of effects from the Gulf coast.
As far as I know all of my LA friends are OK - they range from roughly Baton Rouge to Lafayette.
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ErnieW
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Post by ErnieW on Sept 4, 2021 6:46:56 GMT -8
Hi all. My family and I are safe. We live about 100 yards from a stream that flash flooded. We have a basement. We did heed the repeated flash flood warnings on our phones before it got here and started moving stuff upstairs. We had noticed signs of previous flooding so we did have a lot of our stuff in bins and ready to bug out. We had to take a quick break in getting stuff upstairs when I noticed that the water was approaching my Odyssey's door sill in the driveway. We moved both cars to higher ground. The water ended up being about 4 feet deep in the basement. As a rough guess the stream rose more than 20 feet in less than an hour. The water is mostly drained and we have been doing back breaking work on cleaning out. There are enormous piles of garbage lining the street here and the cleaning still continues. My neighbors all survived but they took very bad losses. The washer and drier got ruined which is tough since we have a lot of clothing that got flood soaked. I had to take a sledge hammer to one of the dressers I keep clothes in down there since the drawers were swollen shut. Right now there is no hot water and I don't know if the landlord will have to replace the heaters. The oil boiler was completely submerged. She is trying to get a plumber to come take a look but that might take a while in this area. My wife's and my camping stuff was some of the first stuff to come upstairs so most of it made it. I tried at the last minute to get the Verizon equipment out but the fiber needed a little screwdriver to release it and in the rush I wrote it off. So no high speed internet. I didn't realize how much I miss it until it was gone. The twins are suffering with no internet as well. Mobile hotspots on our phones is filling the gaps.
I was too busy to take pictures but my wife has taken some. I will try to post some eventually.
Thank you all for your concern.
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Post by rebeccad on Sept 4, 2021 9:32:35 GMT -8
ErnieW, Sorry to hear about the damage at your house, but glad it wasn’t worse—and that you were to some degree prepared. Save the backpacking gear first!
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Post by Travis on Oct 11, 2021 0:51:02 GMT -8
First winter storm of the season predicted for mid-week in SW Montana, most of Wyoming, mountains of Colorado, Utah, and Idaho. Between 2 and 3 feet of snow possible in the higher elevations of the Bighorn Mountains in North Central Wyoming.
I guess I better put a few cold-weather items in my pack this week.
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Post by bradmacmt on Oct 11, 2021 6:09:00 GMT -8
First winter storm of the season predicted for mid-week in SW Montana It started last night - 5" at our house on the valley floor right now (5,012').
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Post by BigLoad on Oct 11, 2021 6:15:34 GMT -8
Yuck, no snow please! There's an off-shore high that's been funneling gloom and moisture into NJ for the last week. Some streets in my neighborhood have algae growing on them (for real).
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Oct 11, 2021 6:37:31 GMT -8
Here in Upstate NY, despite it being October... we're still getting attacked by mosquitoes, the lawn is growing about 2" per week, and I'm still picking cucumbers from the garden (usually they die back in late August).
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Post by rebeccad on Oct 11, 2021 6:38:09 GMT -8
Temperatures here in Chico have finally gotten towards perfect—overnight lows into the high 40s, and daytime highs topping out about 75. This morning is pretty breezy, and I see it could get seriously windy. Not good, as we still have had no real rain, and there are fires that we’d as soon don’t get fed by high winds.
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Post by nickhowes on Oct 12, 2021 8:40:06 GMT -8
Got about a foot and a half here in Nye, Montana and probably headed for two feet. Had to use the "catmobile" to get to the school bus this morning.
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