Weird weather
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Columbia, SC is just now seeing the very leading edge of the rain. Looks like a normal rainy day out right now. Worst is set to come through tonight and tomorrow morning.
Current forecast for us here is somewhere between 2 and 6 inches of rain. Still not really worried about this area, just hopeful that friend's homes along the coast will be ok.
Current forecast for us here is somewhere between 2 and 6 inches of rain. Still not really worried about this area, just hopeful that friend's homes along the coast will be ok.
HERE WE GO, BITCHES.
My niece lives in Florida. So far she's doing fine, thank goodness.
My name -IS- Matthew, so I just nod my head knowingly.
I WILL REBUILD
On a serious note however, my friend (who is in Korea) but whose mother (and his childhood home) is in Edgewater, FL, on the east coast, had a massive tree fall on their house and destroyed his old room as well as the living room. His family and pets weren't hurt, but that was no small amount of damage
On a serious note however, my friend (who is in Korea) but whose mother (and his childhood home) is in Edgewater, FL, on the east coast, had a massive tree fall on their house and destroyed his old room as well as the living room. His family and pets weren't hurt, but that was no small amount of damage
I just keep wanting to call the storm a spaz.
Woke up about 6am to the wind howling and the power out. Power came back on in a few minutes, so I went back to sleep. Woke back up again a little bit ago and power is out again, but the wind has died off. Doesn't appear to be any damage here, thankfully.
Edit: power restored as of 11:30 am
Edit: power restored as of 11:30 am
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My neighborhood is FUCKED up... LOT of trees and lines down. There's several nearby areas that are the same way. The major commercial areas and routes are fairly well-off, which SHOULD facilitate power and tree crews moving around, but I haven't seen any in my area.
Gonna be a long road.
Gonna be a long road.
I'm glad you made it through the storm. I hope the clean up is manageable and you aren't stuck without power for an extended length of time.
You all can flaunt your snow as much as you want, *I'm* just happy to have air conditioning again!
According to NASA, after an initial aerial survey on Saturday, officials determined the center received some isolated roof damage, some downed power lines, and limited water intrusion. Further inspections will take place on Sunday, before officials clear buildings to reopen.A SpaceX official told Ars, “Hurricane Matthew caused some damage to the exterior of SpaceX's payload processing facility at Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The company has a ready and fully capable back-up for processing payloads at its SLC-40 hangar annex building. There was no damage the company’s facilities at Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center.”
United Launch Alliance chief executive Tory Bruno said on Twitter that its facilities saw only "light to moderate" damage and that flight assets had sustained no damage.
United Launch Alliance chief executive Tory Bruno said on Twitter that its facilities saw only "light to moderate" damage and that flight assets had sustained no damage.
(Ars Technica)
You can keep that shit.
And Matthew's remnants are hitting us right now: Government warns N.L. communities to prepare for flooding, power outages
It's bad yes, but not much worse (if at all) than anything else we've seen here. We get LOTS of wind/rain here in the winter. This is early for it though.
Good luck to all facing flooding. That's not us. Parts of the town MIGHT happen (not forecast though), but even at its worst it doesn't really happen. Most of the town is on the hills, and thus you'd need biblical-level stuff to flood the vast majority. People observed where the water came, and built elsewhere here!
For you 'mericans, that's about an inch of rain an hour.
It's bad yes, but not much worse (if at all) than anything else we've seen here. We get LOTS of wind/rain here in the winter. This is early for it though.
Good luck to all facing flooding. That's not us. Parts of the town MIGHT happen (not forecast though), but even at its worst it doesn't really happen. Most of the town is on the hills, and thus you'd need biblical-level stuff to flood the vast majority. People observed where the water came, and built elsewhere here!
There is a LEGION of power and tree folks moving through the county and city in sections. They'll come, work for hours, busting their asses and clearing up areas, then move on to the next ones. The response to Savannah/Chatham County has been PHENOMENAL, and despite occasional issues, looting has not bee NEARLY has bad as I feared it'd be.
Last night I drove back from the eastern side of the state, I had to go around a car that had slid off the road in the rain, and bypass another crash entirely (Thanks, GPS app!).
Honestly, folks. This is just rain! What're you going to do when the snow gets here?
--Patrick
I think it sprinkled a bit here early-morning, but most days have been a murky 80-90 degrees. Nights have been nice a cool, though.
Summer is overstaying its welcome and I would very much like it to feel like fall now.
Summer is overstaying its welcome and I would very much like it to feel like fall now.
GasBandit
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After a pleasant spell with highs in the mid 80s for 10 days or so, it's been highs in the low 90s for about a week here... and will continue to be so until this Thursday, when we get slammed by a cold front and the highs drop into the 70s. That'll be freakin' heaven.
Just last week we had frost overnight and lows of like 32... Today we're a high of 76 and like 85% humidity....
fade
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Yeah, for like 2 days according to the ten-day. Then right back up to heat. At least here.
GasBandit
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What a difference a two-hour Drive makes. It only gets back up into the low eighties for us.
Hey now don't forget about our Taiwanese contingent. They got battered this week, too.
--Patrick