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  1. jac_not_in_dc
    I arrived back in DC on Friday about an hour before the rain started. After 14 weeks in Wyoming where I saw maybe an inch of rain tops over the entire time, I feel like I'm growing moss.
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    I'm sure that some graphic artists could come up with a way to shade around the cone to show the potential breadth of impacts. (Which would then perhaps have shown more clearly a larger impact to the southeast of a land falling hurricane.) I know they do more now with surge forecasts, etc., and they repeat "don't focus just on the cone," but it's pretty clear that that's not good enough. They need a one-glance representation of potential level of impacts based on possible forecast deviations. (And no, not with a Sharpie!)
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    ... and live in manufactured homes or mobile homes.
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    There's also the matter of how much expense the building codes add to the cost of a home, which is clearly an issue when you see how many people of fewer means are living in those developments that are just row upon row of manufactured houses. The fact that more homes on Sanibel withstood the surge (or at least their frames did) is as much a statement about the financial status of the owners as anything. The working class residents in SW FL are going to be the ones who really end up losing, because you can be sure that affordable little cottages and new manufactured home developments won't be high up on the rebuild priority.
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    Sanibel is gonna be in baaad shape.
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    Has anyone seen anything out of Sanibel?
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    Don't talk to me about Kate. I was in college in Florida, and my tickets to see REM turned to dust as the show got cancelled.
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    TWC has really upped their game. They are currently showing how to properly fill and place sandbags.
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    Longboat Key is off of Sarasota.
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    Them dots sure are close together.
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    11 pm, 65 mph, 989 mb
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    Anyone under 40 is going to call it Hermione anyway.
  13. jac_not_in_dc
    1.85" of rain in my spot in Sheridan Co., WY. Most sorely needed. Looks like today is topping out around 58 degrees.
  14. jac_not_in_dc
    Anyone want to edjumacate me on what to root for to have north central Wyoming buried in record snow?
  15. jac_not_in_dc
    62 and raining here in northern Wyoming. After a near lifetime hating the DC summer with the white-hot heat of a thousand suns, I have set up summer camp where the sun is hot (most days) but the humidity is low and the nights are cool. But I'll be back in DC for fall. (And yes, I'll be out here for part of winter, too. Guessing I won't be worrying about the rain-snow line.)
  16. jac_not_in_dc
    Longtime denizen of the Mid Atlantic forum popping in to declare that henceforth my summer (and probably part of winter) allegiance is to northern Wyoming (near Sheridan). :waves:
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    According to https://www.iweathernet.com/total-rainfall-map-24-hours-to-72-hours, I got 1.47" on the south side of Capitol Hill, but two blocks from me got 1.95". That was a sharp gradient.
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    Is this the same system that clobbered parts of Wyoming and South Dakota? I'm getting reports from family of just crazy damage, not to mention the big flooding in Yellowstone.
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    Hail the size of canned hams? (Reference for Gen Xers)
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    Sun trying to break through and breeze picking up on Capitol Hill.
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    Car tops and grass caving on Capitol Hill.
  22. jac_not_in_dc
    Everyone still owes me for my being in Wyoming under clear skies and 40 degree weather on President's Day 2003.
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    I'll be in Florida this weekend, so that storm is a lock.
  24. jac_not_in_dc
    Close for me, too. August 1966. I've shared this before, but the first part of this clip is home movies from Capitol Hill for the January 1966 storm. (second half is from 1967, since I'm there.)
  25. jac_not_in_dc
    Flakes arrived this very minute on Capitol Hill.
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