gravitylover

Explaining that the watches and warnings have to cover a fairly large area is useless. People can't understand the nuances, they just don't have it in them.

Another soggy day

Aww man... lol Today ended up disappointingly wet. Only a few hundredths but it was heavy enough at the beginning to soak everything and it stayed wet all day with a bit more "encouragement".

^^ The wisdom of the ages (aged?)

Great. Now ya got me picturing of a hairy old man standing in front of a mirror in his boxers checking out his chest hairs. Thanx.

You don't, it's native to the northeast. Pollinators love it.

It wasn't that long ago. Hell, I was already old enough to drink (legally!). Oh wait... That was a long time ago

So you're not thinking rain potential Sunday morning now?

One thing about the 14+ inches from Floyd was it fell on rock hard, parched ground and it ran off hard and fast. The runoff did the most damage and most of that was in natural rather than built up areas. Large swaths of hillsides were denuded and small creeks turned into raging torrents 10+ feet deep permanently altering watercourses.

Knowing very little about this other than "the dream" I think that having UV "scrubbers" and other modern treatment and filtration stations at regular intervals throughout the system ought to solve this problem. Irene, Lee and the snowstorm were devastating here. Power out for 5 days after Irene with over a quarter of the roads impassable from downed trees then an insane amount of frozen paste from the snowstorm that took the power out for another 7 days truly sucked. The media pretty much stopped talking about both the day after the initial event. Then again a year later when Sandy took out a few thousand trees followed by the pre Halloween foot and a half snowstorm left us without power for about 10 days. Oh and don't forget the March '18 snowstorm that knocked the power out for 8 days with temps in the teens and 20s.

One of my lifetime dreams is to see a continental water delivery system. A series of pipelines connecting the major drainages so water can be moved from places with too much to places that don't have enough. Water for people, water for agriculture and water for industry. I know - treatment, etc. but where there's a will there's a way. Think of the millions of jobs it would create, think of places that are getting harder and harder to live or places that are burning to the ground. I know it won't ever happen but it's something I've been thinking about for 40 years...

A few hundredths either side of 6" in 24 hours. Other than a few spots where water seeped through the foundation where the gutters overflowed it looks like we skated through this one. Some properties down the hill weren't so lucky. I know one person that lost most of the property when it washed away and tore their septic tank out of the ground and floated it 50 feet down to the neighbors driveway.

.4 in the last 30 minutes and now it's really pouring. It's blowing pretty good too.

Just passed 2" a little while ago. The rain is now the hardest it has been all day so that number ought to go up pretty quickly. The wind is starting to worry me.

Apparently I'm just passing 2" now. Considering how steadily and how heavily the rain has been all day I expected more but when a half dozen local stations are within .2 ya gotta go with it. Flash flood warnings have been issued for the area.

1.2. I've been on the edge of the heavy stuff all day. Just north or west by a few miles is a half to an inch higher.

Floyd was insane. Just under 14" here, between 14.5-15 along the Taconic Spine just west of here and a max of 16.5-17 along Quaker Hill and Cranberry Mt in Patterson. Whole hillsides washed away, roads were rivers and waterfalls were everywhere. It was the most intense weather I've ever seen for over an hour. I drove home from work at what I thought was the end of the worst of it and got caught in some downpours that forced me to stop the car because I couldn't see past the windshield. It was exhilarating

I had a ~15' tall chokecherry growing in the yard that I found yesterday. It wasn't there at the beginning of the year because I cleaned that corner of the yard down to dirt in March. I say had because a few minutes ago I went and pushed it over then ripped it out. It pulled up nearly a foot and a half around root ball. What I'm getting it is the ground is so soft that healthy, new growth that big can just be pulled out by hand. As the wind is already coming up a little in the heavier showers I'm getting concerned for the 50+ foot trees all over the hill.

There's really no "moderate" anymore, is there? Go big or go home. Precip amounts, dewpoints, snow by the foot... Howzabout we get a quarter inch of rain here and there, maybe 4-6" of snow, maybe a hot week where it gets to 87 once or twice rather than 96. Geez

.18-.2 already.

Dry and warm here.

That was my first winter with a drivers license. I used to borrow dads car after dropping him at the train station. At least once a week I'd leave from there to go skiing rather than to school. I'd drive up to Hunter and ski all day then get back in time to pick him up. I almost missed a few times It was a good winter on LI but only in relation to the times, it was an average (which meant pretty good) winter in the Catskills. Sorry all for the thread drift...

Dude that fall was brutal. HS senior year at OHS started out horribly uncomfortable.

Yup. I'm getting worried that they're going to start making a home in the ground or somewhere less than obvious and I won't see it until it's too late. Three and a half day away with not maintenance and the garden took a beating. Mildew completely took over all 8 melon vines and the weight of tomatoes brought most of those plants down but where they aren't overrun with blight they're still flowering and producing nicely while existing fruit is still ripening slowly. Peppers are doing nicely but the beans are done. Looks like plenty more rain incoming.

The maple in front has been dropping slowly for 2 weeks and is starting to show some color, the pos chokecherry in the back is dumping blighted leaves into the garden for a month and the sheer volume of berries coming down is insane. It's easily 2-3" deep under the tree and that's after thousands, millions?!, are rotting and drawing tons of wasps.