jacindc

Oh, I don't think the concept of news organizations knowing that coverage of big weather events gooses the ratings is anything new. I remember local stations being all over big weather events in the 1970s. As for the current storm, I'm starting to hope for the "atmospheric memory" or whatever we call it that seems to target a specific area repeatedly throughout the season. And so far this season it would be me.

Gonna need to shake off my serviceberries, but man, this is gorgeous. Sent from my Pixel 6 using Tapatalk

Capitol Hill, near the freeway.

Fish Market in SW DC:

If it was on South Capitol Street it's a pet daycare, so you didn't miss out. [emoji1787]

The sun is a shinin' here on the Hill.

Trying to figure out whether it's going to slide just to my east.

Monsoon rain on Capitol Hill, and it's gotten so dark out. A bit of a breeze appears off and on, but no big wind.

Report from my father from this morning (so, pre-whatever's about to start): It must have been quite some storm last night. I rode down into the park this a.m. and I was blocked by water on the bike path from Rock Creek both ways within a mile of the beltway. Rock Creek was flowing just below the bottom of the bike path bridge coming up the hill out of the park, so I biked back up the road I had come down into the park on. I haven't seen that much flooding in the almost 45 years I have been biking in the park.

DC canceling afterschool events as well. https://twitter.com/dcpublicschools/status/1433097551717310474

I'm supposed to be in an MRI machine late late tomorrow afternoon. Thinking maybe that's a pretty safe place to be in a twister.

https://www.wwltv.com/video/weather/water-rescue-crew-says-flooding-in-lafitte-is-highest-its-even-been/289-0947a3c0-914a-4a30-8767-2d22e1a19639

A whole lot of bad stuff happening in a whole lot of places. There'd better not be any reporters standing in the French Quarter tomorrow saying "Well, it doesn't really look that bad here."

That NNW movement (rather than NNE) is bringing some of that train of moisture that's been heading into Mississippi closer to Lake P.

If that backbuilding keeps hanging on, that's a whole lot more water into the areas just south of Lake P.

The sudden backbuilding of that band is quite something.

Slidell PD spokesman on WWL saying that this is far worse than anyone anticipated. And the live shot is showing some pretty bad conditions.

WWL showing doppler estimate of 12-15" in a bullseye centered right on Laplace.

This isn't storm surge, this is torrential rain.

WWL reporter showing that I-10 near the 610 split in Metarie is covered with water. He sounds pretty disturbed by it, worried about where the water would be coming from.