North Balti Zen

This. This. 1000 times this. Mappy is spot on. The general public simply does not process (cannot process?) what that kind of rainfall in a short time over a large area means. I don't know how you overcome that. I think adding to warnings when extreme rain events are imminent that if you live in a basement apartment or lowest level of a structure to be weather aware and have a plan to get higher might be worth considering. I think strengthening the "turn around don't drown" messaging to "do not leave your house and get in a vehicle" in such situations, maybe. 23 dead in cars in NJ and that number is still climbing. I bet most of those didn't drive into flood water, they had flood water appear around their car in areas they likely have never seen flood water.

Welcome to a glorious stretch of weather.

mappy re-tweeted this:

holy **** on those pics from NJ. Some of those homes are just demolished.

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Pretty sure those are not tornados or damage reports because I was told today was a nothing-burger.

Clearly TOG in Annapolis. Just texted my brother who works near mall area to get interior w/ his co-workers.

The flooding in Fells following what are becoming very common torrential rain events is a problem down that way. WAY too frequent for my comfort if I were looking to buy.

Putting this here as it is more of a banter/obs - but the storm in Balt City was legit. Torrential rain and frequent lightning. Around 3:30 - 4:00 am.

So sorry, Erin.

i'm still laughing. I've been laughing for five minutes now.

I can never tell what the actual deal is when EJ posts.

What blizzard said - there was a targeted one for last evening too.

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Did we whine our way to something? Looks like radar gave something to Columbia - did you get any of that?

I mean - like - not even close.

The FFW up this way was kinda hilarious looking at radar…

Aftermath just starting to come into focus really