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2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season: Non-Minnesotans arguing about the weather

Handyman said:
Yeah 5" of rain in an hour is quite a bit...
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No I get that. In Oakdale we had a burst where I had measured 4" of rain in an hour a couple years ago.

not a rainfall rate of 4"/hr (we've had that several times this year at our house) but an actual gauge that was confirmed by my neighbor's gauge as 4". Which is why I'm in such disbelief is that I can't believe that only an extra inch was a 1:1000 event for Florida of all places.

We had a downburst that didn't move for an hour. Torrential monsoon-like rain for an hour. My yard on a slight slope got flooded. The end of the street had standing water and storm sewers were backed up. I had erosion in the yard so bad it changed the flow of water in the yard. I have videos of a river flowing through my backyard.

so yeah, I'm surprised.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
No I get that. In Oakdale we had a burst where I had measured 4" of rain in an hour a couple years ago.

not a rainfall rate of 4"/hr (we've had that several times this year at our house) but an actual gauge that was confirmed by my neighbor's gauge as 4". Which is why I'm in such disbelief is that I can't believe that only an extra inch was a 1:1000 event for Florida of all places.

We had a downburst that didn't move for an hour. Torrential monsoon-like rain for an hour. My yard on a slight slope got flooded. The end of the street had standing water and storm sewers were backed up. I had erosion in the yard so bad it changed the flow of water in the yard. I have videos of a river flowing through my backyard.

so yeah, I'm surprised.
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It’s a low lying coastal area, storms typically move through so fast that much rain doesn’t normally accumulate.
 
I thought they were using the Trop for staging power line crews?

My Mom in Law made it through it , 8 miles or so southeast of Tampa, pretty near where eye came ashore. No internet or power(she has a generator though) but phone still works. She was lucky. Doesn't know what outside looks like yet.
 
Saw a picture of a dumpster on someone’s roof. Yikes.

in the same thread, mayor was criticized for saying that the predicted storm surge would cover a house. Sad that it was exactly correct.
 
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