Freaky weather
Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2014 5:47 pm
Yesterday was a historic weather event here on Long Island.
In a narrow stretch of western Suffolk County we got over 13" of rainfall in 24 hours, and almost 10" of that fell in the two-hour period between 6:00 and 8:00 AM. For the engineers out there, each of those two hours represented a separate 500-year rainfall event. To put it in proportion, it is more rain than we typically get in the months of June, July and August combined.
Roads and homes were flooded, the first floor of the local hospital was inundated and all the patients and staff had to be evacuated to the upper floors, and with the storm hitting at the start of the morning commute, hundreds of commuters were stranded or blocked from getting to work as the flood waters reached their time of concentration.
My home was okay, but neighbors a block away had their homes flooded out.
My brother, who lives a few miles from me, and whose property fronts a small pond, had the waters come to within 15' of his doorstep, and had a flood in his basement. I took half a day off to help bail him out (literally).
And today, it's all gone. The sun came out, the waters receded and all is back to normal save for some abandoned cars on the highways.
http://www.weather.com/news/commuter-co ... d-20140813
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/08/13/ ... tri-state/
In a narrow stretch of western Suffolk County we got over 13" of rainfall in 24 hours, and almost 10" of that fell in the two-hour period between 6:00 and 8:00 AM. For the engineers out there, each of those two hours represented a separate 500-year rainfall event. To put it in proportion, it is more rain than we typically get in the months of June, July and August combined.
Roads and homes were flooded, the first floor of the local hospital was inundated and all the patients and staff had to be evacuated to the upper floors, and with the storm hitting at the start of the morning commute, hundreds of commuters were stranded or blocked from getting to work as the flood waters reached their time of concentration.
My home was okay, but neighbors a block away had their homes flooded out.
My brother, who lives a few miles from me, and whose property fronts a small pond, had the waters come to within 15' of his doorstep, and had a flood in his basement. I took half a day off to help bail him out (literally).
And today, it's all gone. The sun came out, the waters receded and all is back to normal save for some abandoned cars on the highways.
http://www.weather.com/news/commuter-co ... d-20140813
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/08/13/ ... tri-state/
