The Nasty Weather Thread

[NoSavingByTheBell]

Heavy snowfalls up north and Cristobal coming ashore down south. Never a dull moment in stateside weather.......

'Cristobal' sounds like some glorified flamenco dancer who has an elevated opinion of himself. Pretty fortunate we had it more that half surrounded with massive 'dry air' from the North. Some strong rain bands yesterday and your standard 6' to 1 foot of standing water for half the day until the pumps caught up otherwise just a dry run. The outer barriers-man made sand dune levees down in Grand Isle were wiped out though. Large areas of this region are very much on borrowed time should a Cat1-2-3 come direct.

I saw 27 drainage pumps have been working. Between Jefferson and Corps of Engineers 17 portable emergency pumps too. But is it normal that the Town of Grand Isle has only 10 pump stations that are in place and working?

[TitoFan]

Well..... here we (fucking) go again.

Hurricane season was apparently in a hurry to make an entrance this year.

We're not even out of July yet and already several storms have made their presence known. Right now we're feeling the effects of newly named Tropical Storm Isaias (nice touch with the Spanish version of Isaiah).

Thankfully not much wind... but a hell of a lot of rain and should be that way for the next two days, seeing as to how Isaias is a very large system.

The center is passing to the south of us, but doesn't really make a hell of a lot of difference with a storm of that size.

I'm thinking the neighboring Dominican Republic is about to get all sorts of rain and some pretty good wind gusts... and it's anybody's guess what Isaias will do after that.

[NoSavingByTheBell]

And Haiti

[Spicoli]

Big bag of suck..man I cannot express how tired I am dealing with hurricanes. TitoFan got your eyes wide open bud? Apparently now we get to experience storm system in pairs ffs..two lined up back to back rolling in around Sun-Monday. Woohoo

[TitoFan]

Big bag of suck..man I cannot express how tired I am dealing with hurricanes. TitoFan got your eyes wide open bud? Apparently now we get to experience storm system in pairs ffs..two lined up back to back rolling in around Sun-Monday. Woohoo

I hear ya bro.

As if the current year weren't bad enough..... now it seems hurricane season has gotten off to a running start.

Some projections have the Gulf of Mexico getting walloped by a one-two punch from Laura and TD 14 (whatever they decide to name it).

Laura should be either skirting us or hitting us sometime this weekend before moving on.

"TIRING" is the right word for it, man.

[NoSavingByTheBell]

WTF

As if 2020 isn't fucked up enough

[El Kabong]

If you look at it on the radar it looks like God has called a jet sweep and Marco is the pulling guard



Hopefully the Yucatan peninsula catches them in the backfield

[TitoFan]

Anybody here live close to the Texas-Louisiana border? If so..... please stay safe and batten the hell down. Hurricane Laura has quickly grown into a major Cat 4 and is sure to do some serious damage.

[Spicoli]

Heavy snowfalls up north and Cristobal coming ashore down south. Never a dull moment in stateside weather.......

'Cristobal' sounds like some glorified flamenco dancer who has an elevated opinion of himself. Pretty fortunate we had it more that half surrounded with massive 'dry air' from the North. Some strong rain bands yesterday and your standard 6' to 1 foot of standing water for half the day until the pumps caught up otherwise just a dry run. The outer barriers-man made sand dune levees down in Grand Isle were wiped out though. Large areas of this region are very much on borrowed time should a Cat1-2-3 come direct.

I saw 27 drainage pumps have been working. Between Jefferson and Corps of Engineers 17 portable emergency pumps too. But is it normal that the Town of Grand Isle has only 10 pump stations that are in place and working?

Grand Isle is on borrowed time as are the lower lying outer banks of City. Grand is literally an island with one highway and post Katrina the protective wetlands aka storm buffer have been badly eroded. The manmade dunes and fencing might as well be castles made of sand..melt into the sea..just had a Hendrix moment. Anyway they're basically sitting out chin in the air, any system with substance and surge should send the 1,200+ inland but people down here don't budge, spook or deter easily.