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There apparently wasn’t evacuation training as well, although this happened so fast there might not have been time, plus it was the middle of the night. But at the very least someone or people responsible should’ve had a weather radio if they were out of cell phone service.

This will clearly be one of the worst flash flood events in our nation’s history. Death toll up to 119, many of whom are children and well over 100 still missing (hopefully these are mostly double counted or not reported found yet). Heartbreaking and devastating. Seems like the campgrounds were out of cell phone coverage so they didn’t get the automated warning from the NWS and didn’t have a weather radio.

I think it was 2 summers ago where it was just comical the difference between my neighborhood in Huntington Station and Long Beach when I visited. Long Beach looked completely parched and in the midst of extreme drought but once north of the Southern State it became lush with greenery everywhere. LI's microclimates are always fascinating.

Thankfully the Rockaways to Long Beach did get maybe a half inch from the storms that grazed the barrier islands, but seen it happen many times. Can be boring as hell for months behind the seabreeze in the marine layer.

I guess about 0.6” total. This last batch largely lurched to my N over the sound.

Drenching here.

Getting dark with thunder to my north. Outflow boundary crashed right into seabreeze and sparked up storms.

Have some Pop-up showers around on the seabreeze and outflow boundaries. Back to 91.

94/74/105.

91/76. Absolutely oppressive.

Heading towards another slam the blinds shut winter. Maybe I should co side moving back south lol. At least the severe season produces in TX. And always a chance of a suppressed snow system that can’t drop a flurry north of Cape May.

Which happens 9 out of 10 setups in the summer.

Who are “they” and what do “they” want me to think?

Feels like a bath. Literally.

This happened in the middle of the night, the storms stalled out because there’s no trough nearby to expedite getting Barry’s remnants out, and the terrain/rock hard ground problem exacerbated it. It had zero to do with “weather modification”. I wasn’t paying enough attention to see if the NWS dropped the ball and the funding cuts are obviously a huge outrage and problem, but this is KNOWN to be a major problem in Central TX especially. There was 16” of rain in one morning in Austin from the remnants of Hurricane Patricia in Oct 2015 which is bar none the heaviest rain I’ve ever seen. Likely even puts Ida to shame. The Austin to San Antonio corridor is known to get tons of rain in a short period of time, but is otherwise pretty dry. And when it falls over the limestone Hill Country, it rampages down the hills into small creeks and as we see here, even the larger rivers can be overwhelmed fast.

Yep, could be a scenario where it’s bone dry on the south shore but 5 miles inland a deluge.

They do, the Colorado River which goes through Austin has numerous dams that were put in as a result of floods over the years. Problem is this was so localized and stalled out so it couldn’t be diverted in time.

What a catastrophic situation in central TX. The area from Austin to San Antonio and north in the Hill Country is probably the worst in the nation for flash floods. There's tons of moisture from the Gulf and remnants of Barry, long term drought so the soil is hard as a rock and the water has to runoff, and the hilly terrain which rushes the water into relatively small creeks and then larger rivers. Some places reported over 20" in this event and it's still raining. I can remember how bad it got in May 2015 when I was there and Wimberley was devastated by one of these fast moving floods coming down from the hills, and water rushed through downtown Austin on Memorial Day. But this is even worse.

Couple rumbles of thunder and light to moderate rain. Meh.

In Long Beach-looks like we get split screwed. Typical.

Surprised no heat advisory. JFK heat index hit 105 today.

90. Officially another heatwave IMBY. And wow it feels like it.

High of 92 today.

High of 92. Heat’s definitely back.

Looks like a general steam bath pattern. 92/75 is no fun here either.