Spare a thought if you could for us in Australia at the moment...
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Posted on: 2011-01-11 06:32 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
I went to sleep at 4 am with zero snow on the AccuWeather Depthometer there, then got up at 7:45 to get ready for a doctor's appointment at 9, only to find 8 inches had already fallen. By the time I'd cleared the driveway, an inch had fallen behind me. That photo was taken at 2 pm.
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heh... that looks like my backyard...|
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Meanwhile, those of us near Paragon City's location are dealing with water in a slightly different form.
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...in SPRING.
Yeah, it usually snows into May here, as well.
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backyard? that looked like the road while driving home today. shudder... love Pennsylvania winters
We're in Georgia and got seven inches of snow. That's practically unheard of around here.
The local public works doesn't even have a salt truck, they mount a field marker (like the kind they use to made baseball and football markings) on the back of a pickup and drop sand out of it.
No plows either, they have a tractor.
Ya'll remain in my thoughts.
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its expensive, yesterday our news had a little factorid thing saying that PA spends around 206 million on snow clean up infrastructure, and i was still sliding around like sidney crosby on red bull driving home today.
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We're in Georgia and got seven inches of snow. That's practically unheard of around here.
The local public works doesn't even have a salt truck, they mount a field marker (like the kind they use to made baseball and football markings) on the back of a pickup and drop sand out of it. No plows either, they have a tractor. |
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Originally Posted by Ironik
Meanwhile, those of us near Paragon City's location are dealing with water in a slightly different form.
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That my friend is awesome!
Haha, if we had that much snow (like we did last year) schools/the gov't/most business would be closed for a good week...maybe 2-3 weeks
Ah got to love places where it doesn't snow a whole lot reacting to it....just as long as you stay off the roads (drivers don't know how to drive!)
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The Weather Channel, based in Atlanta, made a point tonight that the 2 feet of snow dropped on New England Wednesday will be cleaned up enough by Thursday morning that nearly everything will be open for business and running normally. Unlike Atlanta with it's 1 inch that got slushy then froze into ice.
Saw some more headlines about the flooding in Queensland. Two feet of snow may be annoying for us, please remember flooding is extremely devastating.
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It is, and fortunately the river peaked a good six feet under the predictions, which spared hundreds of properties here, but there's still roads cut, infrastructure damaged, and the river...the river is horrendously dangerous right now. You'll all probably see a video today about two guys on a small yacht that capsized late yesterday afternoon my time. It's here, but there is a better video that I've yet to find but saw on tv.
http://video.news.com.au/1740979629/Yacht-capsize-drama
The river will drop another six feet again tomorrow and it's moving easily about 15-20 knots. What's worse is that the weather conditions that created all this are still around for the next two or three months and cyclone season has just started. As I type this, there is a cyclone about 650 miles off the east coast, and one is due to manifest around the 26th, the day after Australia Day. If one of those even gets close, we'll get the same magnitude of rainfall again....and I don't know if we can survive that.
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Yeah, back in '97 we had that exact situation in southern Ohio and northern Kentucky, with entire towns being washed away. I don't recall how high the Ohio River peaked, but it was insanely high. It swamped everything anywhere near the river bank, like the outdoor music venue Riverbend and the amusement park next door in its relentless rise. It rained for 69 days straight, with 3 months of cloudy days and intermittent rain throughout. Half our roads were impassable for months afterward. And this was after the flash floods of winter '95, when record rainfall combined with rapid snowmelt.
A river starts rising, just head for high ground, because it's going to crush everything in its way. People who are killed in rising rivers aren't drowned, they're beaten and crushed to death. So stay as far away from the water as possible. You never know how fast it's going or if there are live power lines in it. Definitely never attempt to drive through it.
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The Weather Channel, based in Atlanta, made a point tonight that the 2 feet of snow dropped on New England Wednesday will be cleaned up enough by Thursday morning that nearly everything will be open for business and running normally. Unlike Atlanta with it's 1 inch that got slushy then froze into ice.
Saw some more headlines about the flooding in Queensland. Two feet of snow may be annoying for us, please remember flooding is extremely devastating. |
Precisely. Especially at that geographic scale. Even if roads appear intact on the surface, they can have all the soil washed underneath... most likely the roads will be buckled and washed away.
It was tough enough for people to truck in resources from unflooded areas to Katrina victims or local town floods, but those resources usually come in on intact roads until the last dozen miles or so, where the flooding was. We're talking about to travel HUNDREDS of miles on flood-damaged roads and washed out bridges to get the most basic supplies to survivors.... all until those roads are fully fixed (potentially taking YEARS).
Things we take for granted with the snow- Fresh water, fuel, electricity, and sewage treatment-- all GONE for a very long time. Power lines will need restrung... but only after all the downed lines are accounted for. Fuel's gotta be trucked in too, Fresh water--- well, expect all your reservoirs to be flooded & filthy, so you'll be boiling your water for a while (if you have the aforementioned fuel)... Sewage? Well, the water treatment plants are probably underwater right now (another reason to have second thoughts in wading through that brackish water back to your homes) and there will be damage to them and their lines. They'll require tests & emergency maintenance at a scale that will overwhelm your sewer authority's normal staff...
All-in-all... it makes even our snow issues trivial in comparison. Heck, at least we can have snowball fights!
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The difference here is in scope. The '97 Ohio river flood, as devestating as it was, covered less than 1/20 of the flood plain that's been hit here.
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Originally Posted by Ironik
Yeah, back in '97 we had that exact situation in southern Ohio and northern Kentucky, with entire towns being washed away. I don't recall how high the Ohio River peaked, but it was insanely high. It swamped everything anywhere near the river bank, like the outdoor music venue Riverbend and the amusement park next door in its relentless rise. It rained for 69 days straight, with 3 months of cloudy days and intermittent rain throughout. Half our roads were impassable for months afterward. And this was after the flash floods of winter '95, when record rainfall combined with rapid snowmelt.
A river starts rising, just head for high ground, because it's going to crush everything in its way. People who are killed in rising rivers aren't drowned, they're beaten and crushed to death. So stay as far away from the water as possible. You never know how fast it's going or if there are live power lines in it. Definitely never attempt to drive through it. |
id also like to throw in for Brazilians as well.apparently they are getting slammed with rain and landslides, so i am also praying for our Brazilian brothers and sisters as well.
I honestly don't know what on Earth is happening with the global weather patterns lately.
Thousands dead in total in serious floods wrecking both Australia, Brazil and Sri Lanka - El Niño apparently. 
Actually El Nina, colder waters off the western coast of South America not warmer which is El Nino.
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Here's hoping everyone keeps safe and sound and survives this crazy weather.
My thoughts are with you all.
Good news; the waters have receded, but the water is dirty and unsafe. We're down to reclaiming what homes we can and beginning the very slow rebuilding process...but we still have three months of very wet weather to survive first.
My thoughts and prayers for everyone else affected by any severe weather event at the moment.
S.
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