Weather

[Alli]

90. Meh. I’m hoping that when Ida’s outerbands get here tomorrow evening it will cool things down for a little while. As long as she stays true to her current track we should be ok. And if she pulls a Katrina and jogs west at the last minute we’ll be even better. Pray there’s no jog east.

 

[Hrafn]

We are preparing our back yard for our winter crop. That meant a trip to Home Depot. My son needed homework help, so my wife did that until just before we got extreme weather warnings. Rain and very real risk of flash floods. We ventured forth, and the torrential rain just started on our outbound trip. We got what we needed, and the rain had abated enough to safely navigate the washes en-route to our home.

Upon arrival home, we found that the tree behind us has dropped yet another 8 inch diameter limb in our yard. I'm afraid I know what I'll be doing tomorrow early. Limb removal and disposal. I don't know when we'll get to the garden part.

The rains and wind were no joke.

 

[Alli]

Battan down the hatches and move the plants into the garage. It’s going to be a bumpy ride. Looks like Biloxi is going to take the worst part of Ida. (Do not pay attention to journalists who only see New Orleans because everyone has heard of it.) The worst part of a hurricane is directly to the east of where it makes landfall due to storm surge and tornadic activity.

 

[SuperMatt]

Battan down the hatches and move the plants into the garage. It’s going to be a bumpy ride. Looks like Biloxi is going to take the worst part of Ida. (Do not pay attention to journalists who only see New Orleans because everyone has heard of it.) The worst part of a hurricane is directly to the east of where it makes landfall due to storm surge and tornadic activity.

I attended some military training in Biloxi... not a place I’m eager to return to.

 

[Huntn]

@Alli good luck with Ida!

 

[shadow puppet]

I can't tell exactly what we're looking at but Ida shredded this. Hope you're doing better where you are, @Alli. Please check in when you can!

 

[lizkat]

I can't tell exactly what we're looking at but Ida shredded this. Hope you're doing better where you are, @Alli. Please check in when you can!

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Well that photo looks like a match to what's shown in this tweeted video, damage on Decatur St. in the French Quarter in New Orleans.

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1432052455471296521/

 

[Eric]

Battan down the hatches and move the plants into the garage. It’s going to be a bumpy ride. Looks like Biloxi is going to take the worst part of Ida. (Do not pay attention to journalists who only see New Orleans because everyone has heard of it.) The worst part of a hurricane is directly to the east of where it makes landfall due to storm surge and tornadic activity.

Seeing this on the news and thinking about you, scary stuff. Take care and keep us posted when it's safe.

 

[lizkat]

Looks like a whole lotta rain along with the wind and storm surge.

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1432152008128086021/

 

[JayMysteri0]

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1432115759891767301/

I'm still wondering why this is a thing. Risking the life of your weatherman, just to demonstrate a storm we all know is bad, is very bad.

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1432064228593217552/

 

[Alli]

I attended some military training in Biloxi... not a place I’m eager to return to.

The majority of folks I went through ROTC with in college wound up going to Biloxi as their first PCS. We called it the armpit of the country. It’s considerably better today with casinos every few feet.

 

[Alli]

The back yard is the usual swimming pool. No wind damage. (Knock wood.)

 

[SuperMatt]

The majority of folks I went through ROTC with in college wound up going to Biloxi as their first PCS. We called it the armpit of the country. It’s considerably better today with casinos every few feet.

There was one day a week (cannot remember which day now) when a local casino had a super-cheap deal on their buffet, which was quite a nice one. The entire training class would head over there once a week and enjoy it. I never gambled there though.

 

[Huntn]

The back yard is the usual swimming pool. No wind damage. (Knock wood.)

Glad to hear. Where my wife’s parents lived in Kingsville, Texas, when we were visiting and had some big rain, we’d get the canoe out and paddle around their 5 acres. The house was up on a foundation, so water in the house was not an issue that I was aware of.

 

[shadow puppet]

The back yard is the usual swimming pool. No wind damage. (Knock wood.)

Thanks for checking in. Relieved to know you are okay!

 

[Alli]

Glad to hear. Where my wife’s parents lived in Kingsville, Texas, when we were visiting and had some big rain, we’d get the canoe out and paddle around their 5 acres. The house was up on a foundation, so water in the house was not an issue that I was aware of.

All the homes in my neighborhood are on stilts. You have to get to a higher elevation to find slab homes.

 

[Pumbaa]

The back yard is the usual swimming pool. No wind damage. (Knock wood.)

Thoughts and prayers, fingers crossed, stay safe, etc.!

Languages and traditions are weird. Herewould mean that one is lying. Wishing for luck/a desirable outcome would literary translate as holding one‘s thumbs. Translators usually get the latter right, translating it to an appropriate crossing of fingers, while the former is frequently translated literally making the sentence mean something completely different in Swedish than it did in English…

Knock on wood on the other hand is basically the same, except that we do the “touch wood“ version and usually spice it up with pepper: “pepper, pepper, touch wood”. Still some room for bad translations, but at least not as bad as the literal translation of crossed fingers.

To stay on topic: Beautiful day, sunny, not windy, and a comfortable 21°C/70°F degrees outside. Summer’s coming to an end, though, spotted the first trees with yellowing leaves yesterday. Soon we’ll have very pretty trees with leaves in tons of different colors for a while, followed by no leaves and darkness for months and months.

 

[JayMysteri0]

Are we going to see this shit EVERYWHERE now?

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1432365479499284482/

 

[Herdfan]

Looks like we are going to get hit with the remnants. Tomorrow looks like a regular rain event which will soak the ground and then the Low will track right over us. There is going to be flooding in southern WV, eastern KY. There already is some today and it is going to fill the rivers making tomorrow and Wednesday worse.

 

[lizkat]

Summer’s coming to an end, though, spotted the first trees with yellowing leaves yesterday. Soon we’ll have very pretty trees with leaves in tons of different colors for a while, followed by no leaves and darkness for months and months.

Ah yes, the bright colors and then the fleeing sunlight. Summer's end isn't really until the equinox in September, but it starts to flash its hand more towards the end of August. The day length has been dropping off sooner a minute at a time all month and "suddenly" it's almost nightfall at 8pm.

Looks like we are going to get hit with the remnants. Tomorrow looks like a regular rain event which will soak the ground and then the Low will track right over us. There is going to be flooding in southern WV, eastern KY. There already is some today and it is going to fill the rivers making tomorrow and Wednesday worse.

Sure hope all in the path of Ida's rain dance on up to the northeast will fare better than expected.

So far looks like the western Catskills will get just the most northern edge of the storm's parting gestures, but the concern is a stalling Atantic cold front colliding with Ida, which could give us 3-5 inches of rain here on Wednesday. We're topped off already, so it's flash flood warnings for us and for the whole area on downstate.

Best advice for flash flooding remains "Turn around, don't drown!" in seeming puddles that can be washouts of roads going through hilly terrain. No one's car or truck deals well with an undermined roadway. Take care!

Meanwhile I feel for all those without power where Ida wreaked the worst damage coming ashore. Some days are longer than others, and times without electrical power or a genny can get really old really fast.