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In pictures: Ida's remnants wreak havoc
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Posted By: earlybird, 9/2/2021 12:46:34 PM

Torrential rain from Hurricane Ida caused deadly flooding in parts of the Northeast and the Mid-Atlantic as the storm made its way up the East Coast on Wednesday and Thursday. Emergencies were declared for New York state, New York City and New Jersey. In New York City, first responders rescued commuters from halted subway trains, while other travelers were stranded overnight in subway stations. In the Philadelphia area, the Schuylkill River was almost 2 feet above major flood stage Thursday morning, swamping city streets, prompting water rescues (sio (snip)New York's Central Park recorded its wettest hour on record, with 3.15 inches falling from 8:51 to 9:51 p.m. on Wednesday.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: earlybird 9/2/2021 12:52:30 PM (No. 901975)
One astute poster pooh-poohed the forecasts of Ida’s eventually becoming a Cat 4 - said it wasn’t going to amount to much. Just a prediction. Okaaaaay…. Sustained wind speed determines a hurricane's category, and Ida was a Category 4 hurricane when it made landfall, though it was just 7-mph away from ranking as a Category 5. Its speed at landfall made it the fourth hurricane in the 21st century to be ranked in the top 10 for wind speed. Here are the strongest hurricanes to hit the U.S. mainland based on windspeed at landfall: Labor Day Hurricane of 1935: 185-mph in Florida Hurricane Camille (1969): 175-mph in Mississippi Hurricane Andrew (1992): 165-mph in Florida Hurricane Michael (2018): 155-mph in Florida Hurricane Ida (2021): 150-mph in Louisiana; Hurricane Laura (2020): 150-mph in Louisiana; Hurricane Charley (2004): 150-mph in Florida; 1932 Freeport Hurricane: 150-mph in Texas; 1919 Florida Keys Hurricane: 150-mph in Florida https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/09/01/hurricane-ida-top-10-strongest-hurricanes/5671303001/
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Northcross 9/2/2021 1:20:17 PM (No. 902012)
Forget about Louisiana and 140mph winds. It rained in New York, so that's the big story.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: earlybird 9/2/2021 2:46:27 PM (No. 902112)
No one is forgetting about Louisiana. The main story is that this was, as predicted, a “monster” storm. Some felt a need to discount the predictions, the warnings, that even we in California saw and were concerned about. (Yes, we’re concerned about our fellow Americans in other states…) But there are always some who o blow off warnings as “been there, done there, the warnings don’t always pan out, blah, blah, blah…” For those who don’t understand words, the maps of where Ida was projected to go, maps that didn’t diminish, that showed it was going to cover a lot of the Eastern part of the country, should have provided a clue. The meteorologists don’t sit around making this stuff up. Their planes are up tracking these storms and they are watching radar. I would never ever ignore them.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Calvinesq 9/2/2021 3:35:51 PM (No. 902152)
Of course, Schumer ET al. are calling for global warming restrictions in light of the flooding in the Northeast. I think Hurricane Agnes in 1972 had as much flooding and destruction as Ida, and there was much less developed land at that time. It’s bad weather with destruction from more development of land. Nothing more. Of course, they can’t let a crises go to waste.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: red1066 9/2/2021 4:20:48 PM (No. 902186)
That might have been me #1. However, I was commenting at the time about the Weather Channel's personnel spread across the region and their habit of blowing things out of proportion. Here in the mid Atlantic area, we received about 3 to 6 inches of rain and very little wind where I'm located. So basically it was a rainy day yesterday.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: DVC 9/2/2021 5:42:49 PM (No. 902278)
Sometimes the weather guessers get it right. This is one of those times. Often they get it wrong. Many decades of flying through and around stuff that wasn't supposed to be there, or getting all ready for a 'big blow' that turns away from land, or never reaches predicted power makes me always a bit skeptical of their predictions. Many pilots are familiar with the term "weather guessers". Hurricanes often swerve suddenly, or just stall and don't move for days. This one moved fast, right in. Would I have evacuated? YES, even if they are wrong, I'd far more rather be evacuated when I didn't need to than not evacuated when I needed to. It's like flying.....if they say it will be bad, then don't fly. Sometimes they are wrong, but it's not worth chancing your life.
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