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Flash flood warning, (Original Post)
elleng
Jun 2015
OP
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,647 posts)1. It's Thursday, so it's time for a downpour.
I got caught in one the last Thursday in May. There was an odd aspect to it, so odd that I wrote the Capital Weather Gang:
Sent: Monday, June 01, 2015 4:08 PM
To: Samenow, Jason;
Subject: snow flurries last Thursday?
Call me crazy (which is probably a bad way to start an email), but:
Last Thursday, I took a bus from the Pentagon to Shirlington, a neighborhood in Arlington County. We left the Pentagon at 6:00 p.m. Just as the rain started, and just before we headed under the southbound lanes of I-395 to get to the southbound express lanes, the air was filled with these feathery-looking things that looked just like snow flurries. They were present for only about 30 or 40 seconds. I figured that they had to be ash from something, but what? There was no vehicle fire on I-395, and there is no incinerator near the Pentagon. Whatever was coming down turned into rain drops on the windshield of the bus. So, yeah, maybe these were freak flurries on the last Thursday in May. A few minutes later, and about two miles to the south, we ran into the downpour, as we crossed over Glebe Road.
Have you received any other emails regarding this? The last I checked, I had a sound mind in a sound body. Well, considering.
To: Samenow, Jason;
Subject: snow flurries last Thursday?
Call me crazy (which is probably a bad way to start an email), but:
Last Thursday, I took a bus from the Pentagon to Shirlington, a neighborhood in Arlington County. We left the Pentagon at 6:00 p.m. Just as the rain started, and just before we headed under the southbound lanes of I-395 to get to the southbound express lanes, the air was filled with these feathery-looking things that looked just like snow flurries. They were present for only about 30 or 40 seconds. I figured that they had to be ash from something, but what? There was no vehicle fire on I-395, and there is no incinerator near the Pentagon. Whatever was coming down turned into rain drops on the windshield of the bus. So, yeah, maybe these were freak flurries on the last Thursday in May. A few minutes later, and about two miles to the south, we ran into the downpour, as we crossed over Glebe Road.
Have you received any other emails regarding this? The last I checked, I had a sound mind in a sound body. Well, considering.
As I post it's really coming down in downtown DC.
elleng
(131,174 posts)3. Guess so, 'up north anyway.'
Sun's shining here.
Definitely a sound mind!
elleng
(131,174 posts)4. Got it here!
Just now ending.
4139
(1,893 posts)2. Wicked 'pink' spot on radar, Fairfax city area
FSogol
(45,532 posts)5. I had to throw a submerisble pump into an areaway to keep
my basement from flooding. Geeze, that was a lot of water coming down.