“poured on the rain” it did not
rain is rain - that’s what a hurricane does - so
it rained heavily
I will even accept fiercely - but it doesn’t " pour it on" like a nike ad - jeesh AP
Excellent discussion on how tropical storms are changing can be found here. In a nutshell, loss of arctic ice is allowing blocking highs to form more easily, what were once “fish storms” are now hitting land. An added bonus is that there is evidence that storms are now moving more slowly…
Be sure to check out the 5 minute video…
You get enough rain (3.5 feet JFC) and you can have really nasty flooding in inland areas. This is a historic town in Maryland that’s built in a creek valley where the water concentrates. With today’s intense storms, well, take a look:
When it rains, it pours.
So I’ve heard anyway.
I’ve heard that too.
That video is reminiscent of pictures of the tsunami in action in Japan after the devastating quake there a few years ago. Stunning and heartbreaking destruction.
Oh, that was horrifying. Big boats coming over seawalls onto highways, stuff like that. Nightmarish.
Any reports on those pig far lagoons overflowing contaminating the land, creeks and rivers for miles around?
Wondering about that myself
This is the calm before the storm in reporting terms. You don’t have people out in the middle of this telling what’s going on because, well, it’s a widespread natural disaster. Not until the water starts receding sometime next week will we start getting a true picture of the scope of this thing.
Wonder if Trump has had time to prevent disasters there by deregulating? /s
Here in NC that is always a concern whether it’s a hurricane or a tornado - the fact that there are football field-sized lagoons of pig feces that can just be sucked up and splashed all over the state for miles around.
Would prefer not to have that in my well water. I’m fussy that way.
yes, it pours rain
or, the rain pours down
or torrential rain if you are a newspaper writer
but the hurricane “pours on the rain” is a bit silly
Bit like bro-speak maybe, can’t disagree with that.
So, I mentioned in another thread my niece is in Fayetteville, NC (home to Ft Bragg) and apparently their house is in one of the many low lying areas near the Cape Fear river. They have to evacuate by 3:00 pm tomorrow. She says the shelters are stuffed full and so are the relatives homes on high ground. She and bf aren’t sure what they’re going to do…at least she still has cell service as we are texting.
An unofficial weather watcher in Morehead City reported 30+ inches in a two day span and it is still raining. That’s an amount I would not be able to deal with. And thise folk at the coast had to deal with a 10 foot storm surge at least twice because the storm was so slow in moving inland.
Once again it was impressed on me how government types are immune to irony. An official in N.Carolina interviewed about the rain fall said “The situation remains fluid”. The NPR host did not miss a beat.
Fingers crossed for them.
Btw, Ft Bragg is reportedly where FEMA pre-positioned a whole pile of relief supplies. Hope they can get to it and get it distributed expeditiously.
Thanks. I haven’t heard from her yet today so I hope they figured something out. She and bf just moved there less than a month ago (from Texas). She was a bit hysterical yesterday when the evacuation order came out. I’m slightly peeved about this as I warned her on Wednesday to have a Plan B and she was all la la, we’re 90 miles from the coast, we’ll wait and see, la la.
Here’s a Hurricane Florence joke:
The word in North Carolina for this week is “Namaste”. As in:
“You fixin to leave?”
“Namaste right here”