In 2009...a storm parked itself over Cobb and Douglas counties(Near Six Flags over Georgia) and dropped 24" of rain in 36 hours.
The Chattahoochie river crested at 30' above flood stage. It was 8' over the I-20 bridge at Six flags....which is usually about 20' over normal river level.
The town I live in, Austell, is the spot where 5 major feeder creeks dump into Sweetwater creek before it dumps into the Chatthoochie. Sweetwater...like the hooch...crested at 30 freakin feet above flood stage.
I not only saw it....I was trapped by the water in my neighborhood. I helped evac folks from cutoff neighborhoods in a jonboat. I got ate up by the clouds of fire ants floating through the water while pulling a jonboat with a rope sloshin through flood water.
750 houses in my county are still empty...waiting to be adjucated before being destroyed. The folks that owned those houses got a fraction of what they were worth from flood insurance....not counting the hundreds that didn't have flood insurance...because it hasn't ever done this before.
Not counting the 6 folks that died...most trying to cross partially flooded bridges in the dark of the first day. My best friend's son found the body of one lady that had been missing a week.
It was a 1,000 year....epic.. biblical flood. It had flooded before..but nothing like that. But it's just rain...right?
My counties have a population of a few hundred thousand. The storm was maybe twenty miles across.
This storm is hitting an area populated with hundreds of millions of people. Right now...hurricane force winds are being recorded 175 miles from the center...that's 350 miles across. Then there's the two feet of snow it's gonna drop in West Virginia.
But it's only rain...right? This storm is gonna kill god knows how many people...gonna destroy billions in property. This storm makes the ones that you and I experienced look miniscule.
The thing is...even if Sandy was a simulated storm in a meterology class and wasn't in the news....THE MEDIA STILL WOULDN'T COVER BENGHAZI and the freakin dereliction of duty and treason that cost the lives of 4 Americans..two of which are my USN brothers. The sad thing is....for every word of reverance and respect paid to those brave men...there's been a hundred by folks just like you discussing the political ramifications of the event...and whose campaign it's gonna hurt worse.
It doesn’t kill people that have knowledge. Start There.
That is rough. I witnessed levels of water not seen in decades. It never really made news. Lots of destruction downstream.
This storm along the coast should be an advisory at best. People have been so dumbed down that they will cringe at the thought of thunder.