KamuSnow

Lol, thanks for the humor!

I'm going with the 6.40" in the gauge here, I saw somewhere that someone measured a rate of 12" per hour at one point. Anyway, when we created this rock area out back, in 2014, we put a 6" pipe in to handle non-heavy rainfalls, and figured that the "3 year flood" would just overflow and run across the grass. We contoured the grass so the water would be spread out over a 40 to 50' wide area. It's worked pretty well overall, except we seem to get 2 or 3 "3 year floods" a year now. Up until today we had never had a single rock wash out onto the grass, at the most some debris from the woods (like Tuesday). This rain today was so far beyond anything we anticipated, I don't think we could have designed for it. First pic, my son was having some fun in it, lol. 2nd pic is during the rain. 3rd pic is the aftermath. Those are river rocks out on the grass, some of them are 8 or 9" long. Guess I won't be mowing there for a few days.

Pretty much wound down here. 6.4" total, same as Tuesday. Seems high, have to see what other areas are reporting.

Thanks. We'll see about the snow pile - a December snow pile would be nice!

We just moved some rocks back into place this afternoon, but now they're out in the middle of the yard. Never seen that much water coming out of the woods.

6.1" in 35 minutes. Almost as much as we got Tuesday in about 5 hours. Our back yard is full of river rocks now, lol (waah).

And another inch since my last post. Yikes. Gotta be some serious flooding around, on top of the 6" here the other day.

Wow, 3" of rain since my post 16 minutes ago.

Just got a tornado warning here to boot!

I'll bet it is - a lot of close strikes here. Rain is just getting going even though we've been under reds for 10 minutes or so. Severe warning here as well.

Is that a sky porpoise? Awesome pic!

Got 0.41" from the action earlier. Currently 72F, DP 69.

Were the strong winds on the back side, like they were down here? They overperformed for sure. Hope you get your power back sooner than forecast!

Probably some new tree trunks to pick out, lol. I looked at some video from yesterday before it got to the bridge, and the crane boom was up. Good thing they got it down. I doubt the bridge is damaged but the crane may be. It was probably a soft hit though, haha.

I'm thinking it's the crane barge and the two hopper barges for the dredging project, since in the pics I saw, that's what it looks like. I was wondering why it would be stuck under Vine st. which is above where it's ultimate destination is, but maybe they were using the crane barge to install the pipe along the river and were still upstream from Vine st.

^^^ I looked at the USGS site for the Schuylkill at the Art Museum and it looks like it peaked before midnight at a little over 13 ft. I also noticed a water temperature chart showing the water temp. going from 84F on Monday to 74F this morning. While logical, I found that interesting for some reason, lol.

I found them here: https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?new&prod=XXXPNSPHI&wfo=phi The latest (2) are wind reports, if you go back (older) to the 3rd most recent, it's the latest rainfall report.

That's a nice looking wave!

Lol... Well good luck! And I'm sorry about your husband passing...

Happening when the power is out sounds like the pump isn't working and maybe it's backing up. Days like today, could be rainwater overwhelming it (which shouldn't happen, rainwater isn't supposed to go into sewage systems), or if you lost power for a minute maybe the pump needs to be reset or something?

Are you on public sewer or your own septic tank? Has it happened before? Are you sure it's coming from inside? Do you have a basement with plumbing drainage (like bathroom, washing machine, sink, etc?). I'm not an expert, just looking for clues :-).

Yikes, anything else? At least you have power I hope.

18 ft. Wow - that might close west river drive, right?

Looks like they're both back up now, even if missing some frames, lol.

Dover radar has been down since about 10am, now it looks like Ft. Dix has been down for an hour or so.