Posted on 08/11/2024 8:05:39 PM PDT by Paul R.
Torrential rain turned streets into rivers, while one local river went from 5 to 17 feet in just a few hours, overflowing its banks.
(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...
Any FReepers in the area?
Please quit abusing the Breaking News and Frontpage sidebars.
[Oklahoma City has worst flooding in living memory]
wow
Eh? The report was 23 minutes old when I posted it.
I don’t want to get in trouble here: What is the criteria for Breaking News? And for that matter, for Front Page News?
NWS 3 day data:
https://forecast.weather.gov/data/obhistory/KOKC.html
Looks like the rain ended around noon, I’m not sure what the “time to get downstream” / time until flood crest factor would be...
Prayers up for all those affected!
Going back through the NWS forecast discussions, NWS Norman expected rain, just not quite so much, it would seem!
Just south of OKC. We had some local roads closed. It was pretty crazy.
I think what the Admin Moderator meant, but didn’t bother to say, (the idiots (IMHO) never do), is that while the YT report was new, the rainfall and flooding were not.
Totals from Mesonet: https://www.mesonet.org/weather/rainfall/24-hour-rainfall-accumulation?ref=1210
Well, that is what I was trying to ask about, as the rain apparently ended about noon, on 8/11, and I don’t have any way to know how quickly the water rose.
Is “Breaking News” based on when reported, or when it happened? And then what is the time criteria? 12 hours? One hour?
“Front Page” maybe needs a definition too: Maybe only “Big” National or International News qualifies, or something that would be a headline only for a major newspaper or major news outlet?
NWS shows over 6-1/2” @ Will Rogers airport, and there’s an area to the SE of Norman that evidently got a lot more than that. Granted that last is an estimate (radar ap) rather than an actual measurement like NWS, but, Mesonet shows a lot of heavier rain SE of Norman too. So, there must have been some spots that got several inches of rain pretty quickly. I can believe it: A bit south of me, near Mayfield KY, last summer, NWS had an official recording of 11.28” in 13 hours.
I can believe that!
Breaking News should be almost as it is happening, or very shortly after. Front Page is harder to define. Widespread flooding in OK City should qualify.
Perhaps what the Admin Mod was really complaining about was how brief the report on You Tube was. If the whole report had been devoted to Oklahoma City he would have been OK with it.
Now that is heavy rain. The heaviest rain I’ve seen in Oregon was a widespread thunderstorm back in 1978 where we got about 6 inches in 3 hours.
My parents trailer park streets were flooded with 6 inches of water (I measured it) because the storm drains had been clogged by all the large bark chunks washing off peoples flower beds. The water went right down after I got there and cleared the drain grates.
Mesonet missed it pretty badly and they are in Norman.
Well, it has been dry here in Eastern OK-Ark. In our area I watched Saturday’s storms go North of us. Sunday’s storms go South of us and we did not get enough rain to settle the dust!
Today(Monday) we are having slow rains that will bring back the grass.
I remember floods in Tulsa going back to 1957. We got flooded in the 1976 Memorial day flood and my brother got flooded several years later on the same day of the year.
Now I live on high ground!
Yeah, the report went on to flooding on the SE coast (still in progress!), so the title was not the most accurate. Maybe I should have noted the additional coverage, but then again “Denny” had been getting a lot of coverage and the OK City area flooding was the new fly in the ointment.
I would think “breaking news”, at least so long as the event is under a day old, would be news just getting out to an audience. That is, the flooding in the OK City area would not be “breaking news” to most people in Oklahoma, yesterday evening, but it would be to a national (and even some international audience such as on YT or FR. Ie., the EVENT was not “breaking”, then, but news of it to most of the audience probably was.
But, what do I know? I just wish the Mods would set clear rules if they are going to complain about such things.
I’d have thought that insulting the Mods would be a far greater offense (and by that I mean no insult to them!)
FR is also quite odd about new info. for past threads. Say, if new info. turns up some time after a thread has pretty much died, FR wants one to post on the old (buried) thread anyway, rather than create a follow-up thread. Every other forum I’ve been on wants the opposite: If one tries to post on a “dead” thread, a message comes up instructing one to create a new thread. In the case of FR, if one wants comment from the group on the old thread, then one has to go back and collect all the desired recipients, plus, no potential new contributors will see the new comment / info. :-(
Scanning the river gauge reports this morning, it looks like the few big jumps in water levels (15 feet - good grief!) receded quickly. Thank goodness for that!
I live in Edmond on the north side of Okc. It was a lot of rain, but we had just as much or more from TS Erin back in 07.
The forecast was for less than an inch, so I didn’t lower the pool level. Within an hour of the first drops, it was obvious we were going to get hammered. So I went outside with an umbrella, in the lightening storm, and opened up the dump valve. My wife was more worried about the pool overflowing into our house, than me getting struck by lightening :). Kidding.
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