The Nasty Weather Thread

[Dark Lord Al]

Hey Randy hope you are safe buddy , your neck of the woods is getting battered right ?

[Master]

The outskirts of New York have been hit very hard and 45 have died with record rainfall.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58429853

[TitoFan]

The outskirts of New York have been hit very hard and 45 have died with record rainfall.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58429853

Hurricane Ida reminds me very much of Hurricane Sandy back in 2012. These systems rarely get up to New York of New Jersey... but Sandy wreaked havoc in those areas mainly due to the rain. It's usually not the destructive Cat 4 winds we get in the tropics or over in the Gulf... but the rain creates its own damage.

[Spicoli]

Hey Randy hope you are safe buddy , your neck of the woods is getting battered right ?

Hey thanks Al appreciate that. Simply put we got our ass kicked lol. I grabbed the bags and bugged out Sat. before landfall. Put 1k+ miles on the ride thru Fla. AL. Tennessee, South Carolina and stayed in more hotels than a Vegas 'working girl' . Something said don't play with that one and she nailed some sturdy parishes. Plaquemines, Houma, Lafitte Grand isle etc all tore up bad not to mention just drowning folks in the NE on the way to fookoffville. Locally about 60 percent of City with power back tonight but other areas will be in the dark until end of Sept. Got lucky really. Two trees down, half fence gone and roof got sheered a bit, some mold but still standing. The suddenness of Ida was surprising, she didn't waiver or linger in the Gulf. Popped up, took aim and rolled straight in. First time seeing one exactly like that. Always an interesting experience. Took an act of god to leave this place for two weeks .

[Kirkland Laing]

Hey Randy hope you are safe buddy , your neck of the woods is getting battered right ?

Hey thanks Al appreciate that. Simply put we got our ass kicked lol. I grabbed the bags and bugged out Sat. before landfall. Put 1k+ miles on the ride thru Fla. AL. Tennessee, South Carolina and stayed in more hotels than a Vegas 'working girl' . Something said don't play with that one and she nailed some sturdy parishes. Plaquemines, Houma, Lafitte Grand isle etc all tore up bad not to mention just drowning folks in the NE on the way to fookoffville. Locally about 60 percent of City with power back tonight but other areas will be in the dark until end of Sept. Got lucky really. Two trees down, half fence gone and roof got sheered a bit, some mold but still standing. The suddenness of Ida was surprising, she didn't waiver or linger in the Gulf. Popped up, took aim and rolled straight in. First time seeing one exactly like that. Always an interesting experience. Took an act of god to leave this place for two weeks .

I saw you were planning to go to Florida and when you didn't check in I was thinking anything could have happened. Good that you dodged it.

[Spicoli]

Great Av and sad loss, Williams was just brilliant as Chalky White on Boardwalk!

[Kirkland Laing]

Great Av and sad loss, Williams was just brilliant as Chalky White on Boardwalk!

I watched a couple of shows and I couldn't get away with it. I'm thinking about watching The Wire again.

[palmerq]

Some nice flooding here in bc and I'm stuck on the wrong side of it, freeway and all the other roads are either flooded or blocked by mudslides, so I went off to the emergency centre(they were giving out subway) and the gits gave me forms to get 45 quids worth of soap and toothpaste(seems excessive but maybe they're trying to tell me something), I get to go to Denny's three times a day but it doesn't cover everything but wotever better than nothing. Nowhere to sleep though which is a bit awkward..

Looks like nutsack river in Washington flooded pretty bad and it swelled over to this low lying farmland here and has buggered everything else.

Some twitter links of the lovely flooding, I don't know how to upload images on the phone,

https://twitter.com/TimJamesCity/sta...393600513?s=20

https://twitter.com/ZoMbIeSKilled33/...460150272?s=20

https://twitter.com/AbbyPoliceDept/s...499654661?s=20

It's not usually under water.



tried to drive home yesterday afternoon but the water rose very fast and by the point we were turned around the water was nearly half way up the car door, quite a bit of luck that we made it through some guys cars were stalling and not starting up again. I think a lot of farms just had to leave their livestock too... First the 45+ heatwave in June buggered up some crops in this area now the flooding too, the farms are taking a whacking.

[palmerq]

Made it back home after being stuck for two nights on the wrong side of the flood, they managed to clear the landslides on the road on the other side of the Fraser River, it's quite a detour but it works. Part of the road seems damaged so it was one lane alternating traffic for a few kms(which takes a long time)....

Quite a disaster.. Some various links.
The worst stuff is further inland where small bridges are falling down and roads collapsing :S

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/coqu...ns-washed-away

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59324764

Then an RV rental place catches fire :S


https://globalnews.ca/video/8380287/...with-flooding/



Looks like the water is coming down pretty quick too which is nice... I'm still not going to work for the rest of the week though,...

[SlimTrae]

tried to drive home yesterday afternoon but the water rose very fast and by the point we were turned around the water was nearly half way up the car door, quite a bit of luck that we made it through some guys cars were stalling and not starting up again..

I had a coworker who made the nightly news, cameras caught him on top of his car. He said the water was about a foot,within seconds the water was up to the window... he had to jump out his window on the roof, made it to another car roof, then to safety. had to go back and get his car next day- I think it was totalled, so I am sure you must know how that felt.

Cool ya back, so we can go at it on the boxing tip!!!!!!