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Boston is drowning in historic 15ft flood of icy water - trapping people in cars and homes -...
DAILY MAIL UK ^ | Jan 4, 2018 | Valerie Edwards and Ashley Collman For Dailymail.com and Associated Press and Reuters

Posted on 01/04/2018 5:08:26 PM PST by Morgana

FULL TITLE: Boston is drowning in historic 15ft flood of icy water - trapping people in cars and homes - as 'bomb cyclone' storm explodes over Northeast closing schools, cancelling 4,000 flights and killing six

Boston experienced historic flooding on Thursday, as a 'bomb cyclone' winter storm hit the Northeast, bringing heavy snow, winds and storm surge.

Meteorologists said Boston was unofficially nearing a water level record set during the Blizzard of 1978.

Matt Doody, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Taunton, told the Boston Herald that the Weather Service couldn't 'officially' call it a new record, but the water was hovering around the 15.1 foot mark set during the historic storm 40 years ago.

The system is also very similar to a storm that hit the Northeast on the exact same day in 1989, according to the Weather Service.

At least a dozen people have been rescued from flooded homes in Marshfield, and a handful of others were rescued from cars under water in the South Shore region of Massachusetts.

'It's up over the roof of cars. It's up over four feet,' Deputy Fire Chief Louis Cipullo said of the floodwaters in the area.

The nor'easter threatened to dump as much as 18 inches of snow from the Carolinas to Maine - causing schools and office to close and thousands of flights to be cancelled.

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KEYWORDS: boston; flood; icestorm; snowstorm
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To: Morgana

So far as I can tell, it looks like Winter in the Northeast.


21 posted on 01/04/2018 5:32:21 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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To: piasa
Who came up with the stupid ‘bomb cyclone’ name in the first place and why is everyone going along with it?

Explosive cyclogenesis

In the 1940s and 50s meteorologists at the Bergen School of Meteorology began informally calling some storms that grew over the sea "bombs" because they developed with a great ferocity rarely seen over land.[12]

By the 1970s the terms "explosive cyclogenesis" and even "meteorological bombs" were being used by MIT professor Fred Sanders (building on work from the 1950s by Tor Bergeron), who brought the term into common usage in a 1980 article in the Monthly Weather Review.[8][12] In 1980, Sanders and his colleague John Gyakum defined a "bomb" as an extratropical cyclone that deepens by at least (24 sin φ/ sin 60˚)mb in 24 hours, where φ represents latitude in degrees.

22 posted on 01/04/2018 5:32:37 PM PST by KarlInOhio (The Whig Party died when it fled the great fight of its century. Ditto for the Republicans now.)
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To: Morgana
'bomb cyclone'

Oh, for heaven's sake, do it right!

'cobalt salted thermonuclear bomb the size of 'Tsar Bomba' cyclone'

23 posted on 01/04/2018 5:37:03 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: chris37

“Isn’t that a bunch of Democrats there?”

Oh yeah! Hope its a bunch of MA libs!


24 posted on 01/04/2018 5:43:05 PM PST by Bonemaker
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To: RightGeek

There’s a few whitecaps on those waves - that means winds are about 15-20 knots.

Isn’t that regular winter?


25 posted on 01/04/2018 5:43:19 PM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: Neidermeyer
What’s the big deal... 18” snow equals 1.8” of rain... we get that in an hour sometimes...

It's more than just the snow fall.

Coastal flooding due to storm surge (yes, it happened because of this extreme low). That caused coastal flooding. And there was a combination of ice, slush, and water. High winds, the current moon phase, and other factor have combined to make this more destructive and dangerous.

26 posted on 01/04/2018 5:43:20 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Morgana

This looks bad, I saw three Oldsmobile’s float by ...


27 posted on 01/04/2018 5:46:37 PM PST by Navy Patriot (America returns to the Rule of Law)
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To: canuck_conservative

Yes. The problem seems to be storm surge coupled with high tides.


28 posted on 01/04/2018 5:47:11 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Morgana
Matt Doody, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Taunton, told the Boston Herald that the Weather Service couldn't 'officially' call it a new record

Heh, Beavis, they said "doody".

29 posted on 01/04/2018 5:48:41 PM PST by Major Matt Mason (The U.S. Senate - where American freedom goes to die.)
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To: piasa

Because it’s too cold to be a sharknado.


30 posted on 01/04/2018 5:49:33 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: Navy Patriot

Let me know when you see three Model-Ts float by.


31 posted on 01/04/2018 5:51:20 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (All posts are /s, unless otherwise specified.)
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To: piasa
Meteorologists in the 1940’s and 50’s. Technically need 24mb drop in 24hrs to qualify. I would guess TV has popularized it
32 posted on 01/04/2018 5:53:49 PM PST by Cold Heart
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To: rightwingcrazy

Glouster, Ma got hit badly.


33 posted on 01/04/2018 5:56:45 PM PST by Daffynition (The New PTSD: PRESIDENT-Trump Stress Disorder - The LSN didnÂ’t make Trump, so they can't break him)
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To: Major Matt Mason

doody


34 posted on 01/04/2018 5:57:45 PM PST by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Bonemaker

Such a pity.

I really hope they all know how to swim.


35 posted on 01/04/2018 6:02:17 PM PST by chris37 (Take a week off racist >;-)
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To: RightGeek
That ain't Cantore..

It's Mike Trout!!

36 posted on 01/04/2018 6:05:50 PM PST by Osage Orange (Watch your six.)
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To: Morgana

Ice, record cold - but wait a minute - historic flooding - sea levels rising - see, Global Warming(TM) theory can be made to fit any circumstance......


37 posted on 01/04/2018 6:07:52 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Morgana

What? They haven’t given it a name yet?

Like maybe Mega Winter Storm Bomb... Ragnar?


38 posted on 01/04/2018 6:08:19 PM PST by Hatteras
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To: Morgana

Realistic title: Boston flooding from really cold Nor’easter.


39 posted on 01/04/2018 6:08:50 PM PST by Rebelbase (The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.-- H.L. Mencken)
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To: Morgana

It’s at times like these that I reflect on just how powerless we humans are when it comes to nature. Sure we can damn rivers, clear forests, even plant forests, we feel as if sometimes we’re omnipotent over it all. And then God makes it snow, sends hail storms, rains, droughts and earthquakes and the more sensible among, the believers in HIS presence and power realize we don’t control squat. It’s things like this that make me shake my head in bemusement and disgust at the “Climate Changers’’ who think we have to power to somehow effect of of this.


40 posted on 01/04/2018 6:11:49 PM PST by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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