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MAJOR FLOODING INTHE NORTHEAST
accuweather.com | 4-2-04 | Accuweather

Posted on 04/02/2005 1:03:13 PM PST by capecodderathome

From Joe Bastardi, Accuweather's top forecaster: THIS STORM HAS POTENTIAL TO LEAD TO FLOODING OF HISTORICAL PROPORTIONS IN SOME PLACES., THE FIRST EVIDENCE OF SUCH THINGS IS THE SERIOUSNESS OF THE DEVELOPING SITUATION ON THE SUSQUEHANNA. He's talking of floods equal or worse than the historic floods of 1936. PA,NY.MA,CT, VT, NH... If you're in the areas above, check your local river forecasts, or if you have friends or family in these areas, let them know.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts; US: New Jersey; US: New York; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: climatechange; historicflooding
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1 posted on 04/02/2005 1:03:14 PM PST by capecodderathome
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To: capecodderathome
Hard-core lunatic weather geeks are talking about the situation Here.
2 posted on 04/02/2005 1:06:54 PM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: capecodderathome

There was a ton of snow this winter. I'm thinking of taking a ride to the White Mountains In NH soon. The mountain Streams must be raging.


3 posted on 04/02/2005 1:07:29 PM PST by mowowie
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To: capecodderathome

Ummm, Joe, I think we kinda figured that out :)


4 posted on 04/02/2005 1:07:41 PM PST by mewzilla
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To: Lil'freeper

Ping


5 posted on 04/02/2005 1:13:02 PM PST by big'ol_freeper (World Series Champion Boston Red Sox!! Has a nice ring to it.)
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To: capecodderathome

48 hours of rain today and tomorrow here in Vermont, and the ground still hasn't really thawed out. I had to run down and buy a sump pump for the basement this afternoon. Ice dams around the house are channeling water into it.


6 posted on 04/02/2005 1:14:21 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: capecodderathome

You know you are a FReepaholic when you keep on FReepin' as the floodwaters rise around you ankles...


7 posted on 04/02/2005 1:15:36 PM PST by gridlock (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: capecodderathome
From Joe Bastardi,

Dontcha know HE took some crap in grade school...

8 posted on 04/02/2005 1:17:00 PM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: capecodderathome

I live, literally, right down the street from the East River here in Manhattan....where does one get a 'local river forecast'?


9 posted on 04/02/2005 1:17:56 PM PST by repub_phdstudent ((one of the few Republican 22-year old academians in the Northeast!))
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To: Izzy Dunne

He and Ron Insana must have been close.


10 posted on 04/02/2005 1:18:10 PM PST by cripplecreek (I'm apathetic but really don't care.)
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To: capecodderathome
Here in Maine, we have what's called "mud season", which started last week.

The ground freezes 2-3 feet down in the winter.
When rain and warmer weather hit, the snow and top layer melts, but down deep it's still frozen. That means there's no place for the water to go.
So it makes a sort of soup up top.

90% of the snow has already melted in the last week, though. It's been raining all day, but it's a light rain.

11 posted on 04/02/2005 1:20:53 PM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Izzy Dunne
From what I have seen of him I bet he didn't take much crap.
12 posted on 04/02/2005 1:22:13 PM PST by Flyer ( http://dahtcom.com)
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To: Neets

FYI, stay alert Sweetie


13 posted on 04/02/2005 1:22:49 PM PST by Iowa Granny
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To: capecodderathome

Worse than '72? I think not.


14 posted on 04/02/2005 1:22:51 PM PST by SengirV
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To: capecodderathome

Yup. The creek behind my house is real close to flooding. I expect them to close the road soon. I'm glad we're 100 feet up, looking down on it.


15 posted on 04/02/2005 1:23:30 PM PST by Windcatcher (Never compromise with a Socialist. Always go for the throat. Socialism is evil.)
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To: Flyer

16 posted on 04/02/2005 1:23:53 PM PST by mewzilla
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To: capecodderathome
My yard is a mud factory already and then I get this in the email

THE NATL WEATHER SVC IN CARIBOU HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING FOR AREAS OF PISCATAQUIS.PENOBSCOT & HANCOCK COUNTIES.

A STRONG AREA OF LOW PRESSURE WILL LIFT SLOWLY NORTH.ACROSS NEW ENGLAND & IN TO THE ST. LAWRENCE RIVER VALLEY.SATURDAY & SUNDAY. THIS STORM WILL BRING RAIN TO THE ENTIRE REGION.WITH POTENTIALLY HEAVY RAINS OVER THE CNTL ME HIGHLANDS SAT EVENING THROUGH EARLY SUN MORNING.& ACROSS THE DOWNEAST HANCOCK COUNTY SUN MORNING.

THE FORECAST IS FOR ONE & ONE-HALF TO TWO & ONE-QUARTER INCHES OF RAIN ACROSS THE WARNING AREA.WITH LOCALIZED AMOUNTS OF THREE INCHES OVER TERRAIN ENHANCED LOCATIONS.THE EASTERN SLOPES OF CNTL & DOWNEAST ME.FROM TUNK & CADILLAC MTNS IN HANCOCK COUNTY.TO BAXTER STATE PARK IN N. PISCATAQUIS COUNTY. ADDITIONALLY.ANY SNOW MELT WILL ADD TO RUNOFF IN AREA WATERWAYS.

THE SMALLEST WATERWAYS.URBAN DRAINAGES.WILL BE THE THE FIRST TO RESPOND AS LOW AREAS IN ROADWAYS & STORM DRAINS BECOME OVERWHELMED BY THE RUNOFF. NEXT.THE SMALLER STREAMS & BROOKS WILL BEGIN TO RUN FAST.& SPILL OVER THEIR BANKS. FINALLY.THE RUNOFF WILL REACH THE LARGER AREA RIVERS.WHICH REMAIN HIGH FROM A PREVIOUS STORM.& COULD RISE QUICKLY TO NEAR BANKFULL UNDER THE PRESSURE OF ANY ADDITIONAL RAIN & SNOW MELT.

THE AREAS OF HIGHEST CONCERN ARE THE ICE COVERED STRETCHES OF THE PISCATAQUIS & PENOBSCOT RIVERS.WHERE THERE IS STILL THE POSSIBILITY OF AN ICE JAM.& THE SWOLLEN DOWNEAST COASTAL BASINS AND BOGS.FROM THE SEBASTICOOK TO THE UNION RIVER BASIN & THE UPPER NARRAGUAGUS. RESIDENTS OF DOWNEAST & CNTL ME.ESPECIALLY THOSE LIVING & WORKING NEAR AREA RIVERS & STREAMS.SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RISING WATERS THIS WEEKEND.

THE POTENTIAL FOR FLOODING WILL EXIST FROM THE TIME THE FIRST HEAVY RAINFALL SAT EVENING.INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK.AS WATERWAYS RESPOND TO ANY RUNOFF.

AN UPDATE TO THIS WARNING WILL BE ISSUED BY THE NATL WEATHER SVC IN CARIBOU NO LATER THAN 1:00 PM EDT SUNDAY.MARCH 3RD.

17 posted on 04/02/2005 1:25:43 PM PST by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghanistan Honor Roll students.)
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To: repub_phdstudent

This is from the National Weather Service. When you get to the page, click on whatever area you live in and then find the river on that page. It has good current and forecast forecast info and is pretty accurate. It came in very handy here in Southern Indiana this winter when we had the floods.

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/rivers_tab.php


18 posted on 04/02/2005 1:54:48 PM PST by freedom4ever
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To: gridlock

ROTFLOL - or when the earthquakes are rockin' the house .. LOL.


19 posted on 04/02/2005 2:02:19 PM PST by CyberAnt (President Bush: "America is the greatest nation on the face of the earth")
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To: Izzy Dunne

Sounds like it came out of "Johnny Dangerously".


20 posted on 04/02/2005 2:02:41 PM PST by blue-duncan
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