Wet Wednesday: Flooding Rain Swamps Northeast
Source: USA TODAY
Torrential overnight rain brought floods to portions of the Northeast and New England Wednesday, a day after heavy rain swamped the Mid-Atlantic and two days after Detroit saw historic floods.
Wednesday morning, floods stranded drivers in Long Island, where more than a foot of rain fell overnight. Central and eastern Long Island roads that were still open had bumper-to-bumper traffic Wednesday morning.
Islip, N.Y., picked up 13.26 inches of rain overnight, which is more than the city typically gets in an entire summer.
If verified, that amount would break the all-time New York State record for rainiest day in the state's history, the National Weather Service said.
Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2014/08/13/rain-floods-long-island-northeast-wednesday/13994951/
The Most Dramatic Images of East Coast Flooding
http://abcnews.go.com/US/dramatic-images-east-coast-flooding/story?id=24957999
Drivers rescued from stranded cars as record-setting rains cripple Long Island roads, flood warnings issued in parts of NYC
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/drivers-rescued-stranded-cars-flooded-long-island-roads-article-1.1901696
phantom power
(25,966 posts)hedgehog
(36,286 posts)1. Stay out of the water - it's very easy to get swept off your feet and/or flood your car engine if the water is deeper than you realize.
2. Stay out of the water - most older cities have storm sewers that are connected to sanitary sewers. When the sewers back up, some of that water is raw sewage.
calimary
(81,467 posts)We'll gladly take a LOT of those floodwaters off your hands! Send it out HERE!!! PLEASE!!!!!
PasadenaTrudy
(3,998 posts)Can you imagine 13" of rain? Not all at once though
calimary
(81,467 posts)One can dream. And keep our fingers crossed that we don't have any more water main blow-outs...
PasadenaTrudy
(3,998 posts)My brother is a plumber and he's fixing them almost daily. We just don't hear about them all on the news. He says all this piping is about 100 yrs old and wearing out.
Ford_Prefect
(7,919 posts)...And yet Global Warming is still considered to be "Bad Science"?
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)it'll steep away their stupidity. One can hope anyways.
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)NutmegYankee
(16,201 posts)We really did need it though. The grass was turning brown.