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Atlanta Flooding Not Over Yet
Some areas in this region of climate change skeptics have received as much as 20″ of rain since Friday. Three Interstates are closed. There are detours around detours. There have been six deaths of drivers swept off roads by water. And a 2-year-old was swept out of his father’s arms in the rushing current:
Just months ago the region was suffering from a massive, two-year drought that left rivers and lakes more than a dozen feet below average… Meteorologists said the rain is caused by a slow-moving storm that’s brought both moisture and southerly winds form the Gulf of Mexico, adding to a phenomenon known as “training” in which rain-laden thunderstorms move repeatedly over the same area… It’s been called by some a 100-year storm.
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6 Responses to “Atlanta Flooding Not Over Yet”
And now I suppose that all the tenthers are going to want the Federal Government to come in and bail their asses…
Yeah Joe, I have a 4-inch river rolling down my neighborhood. I'm in Gwinnett County and we've got hit pretty hard as well.
Some areas in this region of climate change skeptics have received as much as 20? of rain since Friday.
Are you trying to connect the rain to global warming?
Personally I wouldn't link this “training” phenomenon to global warming unless it becomes a trend.
dear t-steel, I'm sorry to hear about the mini flood. Make sure to keep your children out of the water stream. When we worked with Katrina refugees, even people from outlying parishes lesser hit, had skin infections from standing and in the case of children,playing in the shallow water. Cisterns and sewage you cant see often broken into and carried by the flood, not to mention what lies in people's basements and garaages for a hundred years.
you need anything? you ok?
dr.e
Keep your boats handy, guys.