Hurricane Joaquin

[digitS']

This is not how I expected things to be, as recently as Thursday.

Flooding in The Carolinas ~ what, both from rain and salt water??

The hurricane well off-shore. Is more of the East Coast still likely to get this rain and these tides?

Steve

 

[Just-Moxie]

Storm surge is generally only coastal. We in the rest of SC are getting a Weather Event. It is not even really Feeder Bands from the hurricane. Just moisture being driven by the jest stream and low pressure zones over the eastern seaboard this weekend.
Here is a link of the Jet Stream activity..currently working on flooding SC

www.wunderground.com/wundermap/?lat=37.17267&lon=-91.42332&zoom=4&type=terrain&units=english&tl.play=0&tl.spd=4&tl.dur=1&tl.mode=simple&groupSevere=1&groupHurricane=1&groupFire=1&groupCamsPhotos=1&groupRealEstate=1&eyedropper=0&drought=0&extremes=0&fault=0&favs=0&femaflood=0&fire=0&firewfas=0&fissures=0&fronts=0&hurrevac=0&hur=0&labels=0&lightning=0&livesurge=0&mm=1&mm.mdl=GFS&mm.type=200&mm.hour=6&mm.opa=100&ndfd=0&rad=0&dir=1&dir.mode=driving&sst=0&sat=0&seismicrisk=0&svr=0&ski=0&snowfall=0&stateLines=0&stormreports=0&tor=0&tfk=0&tsunami=0&riv=0&wxsn=0&cams=0&pix=0&PrecipStart=0&favs=0

 

[Just-Moxie]

http://www.foxcarolina.com/story/30181266/sceg-to-release-water-from-lake-murray-dam-sunday-morning

Flooding in midlands SC, Columbia.

 

[Just-Moxie]

This CNN article explains it really well.


http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/04/us/east-coast-rain-flood/index.html

 

[canesisters]

I love a cold house. last weekend friends stayed over so we could leave early for orchard. I opened all the windows, in middle of night got up to use bathroom, was surprised heat was on. Rather then close windows someone turned heat on.

That sounds like something that would happen at my house......
A few days before the storm I got a text saying that the AC wasn't working. It was 68 outside!!! I texted back "It seems to be working fine outside. Open a window."

 

[baymule]

Haha @canesisters that is funny! Open the window! It's FREE!

 

[digitS']

Okay,

but the Carolina storm seems beyond all expectations and experiences of the people living there!

Ouch.

Steve

 

[so lucky]

The governor of SC said it was a thousand year rain event.

 

[Just-Moxie]

Yes. It's bad. Really really bad here.

 

[Smart Red]

The governor of SC said it was a thousand year rain event.

Yes, I heard her statement now often repeated since last night. Strange how she could know what went on in the Americas way back since the year 1015. She actually said, "We haven't seen this kind of rainfall in the low country in a thousand years." That's pretty good record keeping (by whom?).

I can see how devastating the situation is and I pray things will normalize soon for the citizens effected by this storm, but language is language. How she could say this and why the media would pick up and repeat it is beyond me.