Frances was bad....but this is Ivan the Terrible

[transplant99]

This stuff gets old in a hrry let me tell ya....

Several confirmed deaths his time...we understand that power will be out for up to 4 days at home. Im lucky once again to have an office in an arena downtown that never lost power nor water this time.

One side of a mountain washed away apparently...some 30+ houses now nothing but twigs.

We still have flood and wind warnings as Ivan's last stand comes at us starting tonight.


Pictures tell a better story

[BlackArcher101]

Wow

[wittynickname]

We're getting slammed pretty good with rain up here in Pittsburgh. Frances' remains had water levels above average as it is, and we've had over 4 inches of rain since midnight, which is already near a record, and its still coming down. There are a ton of roads closed, a few landslides, evacuations, its insanity.

It'll be nice when hurricane season is over. Stay safe, transplant.

[kipperiggy]

And apparently Jean and Carl are forming now too.

[Lanny_MacDonald]

Keep dry Tranny. I hope you get through this tough time intact. Keep the family and the photos together at all times. Hey, maybe you should consider Arizona too. The nly thing you have to worry about here is the UV index. Keep safe Tranny. We're thinking of you.

[Crazy Flamer]

How can people continue to live in such an area? I'm not trying to be a prick or anything, I'm really curious. I'm sure there are people who live in Florida who have had to start from scratch several times in their lives due to the destruction of hurricanes. I guess the same goes for people who live in California and the effect of Earthquakes. It must start to weigh a person down having to pick up the pieces and start from square one everytime a hurricane hits. My heart goes out to you guys.

Keep safe.

[wittynickname]

Originally posted by Crazy Flamer@Sep 18 2004, 12:18 AM
How can people continue to live in such an area? I'm not trying to be a prick or anything, I'm really curious. I'm sure there are people who live in Florida who have had to start from scratch several times in their lives due to the destruction of hurricanes. I guess the same goes for people who live in California and the effect of Earthquakes. It must start to weigh a person down having to pick up the pieces and start from square one everytime a hurricane hits. My heart goes out to you guys.

Keep safe.

You don't necessarily have to live in an area that's hurricane prone to be affected. Pennsylvania isn't exactly a place you expect to have affected by tropical systems. But we had record breaking rains today, 5.5 inches officially, over 7 inches in some areas.

But again, pictures tell the story better:





You can't tell, but this is the downtown area of the one local town.




And this would be the major highway that takes you to the airport from downtown...


This is one of the best shots--that thing in the water? That's the top of a firetruck.



Its been a crazy day in Western Pennsylvania.

[transplant99]

Originally posted by Crazy Flamer@Sep 18 2004, 12:18 AM
How can people continue to live in such an area? I'm not trying to be a prick or anything, I'm really curious. I'm sure there are people who live in Florida who have had to start from scratch several times in their lives due to the destruction of hurricanes. I guess the same goes for people who live in California and the effect of Earthquakes. It must start to weigh a person down having to pick up the pieces and start from square one everytime a hurricane hits. My heart goes out to you guys.

Keep safe.

I live in the mountains of Western NC, no where near Florida. I personally have a home on the top of a mountain, so normally flood waters are of little concern. These last 2 weeks however, the rain has caused major problems for parts of the entire eastern states. Here maybe more than some areas, but nothing like what happened in Florida or Alabama.

I lived in High River in 97 when it got clobbered as well. Had 5' of water in my business.

It doesnt matter where you live...floods can happen at any time. Calgary has had major flooding.


As an example...an 82 ear old woman was sleeping in her room...in her house on a mountain when the whole thing let loose. She survived this.



Here is a LINK to her story.

The biggest concern in this area is trees falling. The reason being 3-fold. First this area has about the most dense foilage anywhere in NA. 2. With the amount of rain we have had this summer, (over 3 feeet in the last 3 weeks here) the ground is so wet that trees root systems are exposed and more easily can topple. 3)The winds that have been associated with the remnants of Frances and Ivan were still topping 60 MPH when they got here...add all 3 together and you have this....ALL over the area. Power lines are a common casualty.






This is about 1/4 mile from my house.




This is the one that had me reeling. This is I-40, THE major East-West artery through the state. The right hand lane is gone into the river. Normally that water is 20 feet below the edge of the road. Just wild and having driven it many mant times...hard to fathom

[sbailey924]

Man, that pic of I-40 is terrible. Here in Knoxville we got really lucky. It was supposed to be kind of bad (nothing worthy of getting freaked out about) for a week straight, and now it's beautiful outside. My parents said Johnson City got off pretty easy too. That mountain divide must have helped a good bit here.

Hope everyone and everything stays safe for you.

[transplant99]

Just to add to this....115 dead and counting from this SOB of a storm.

Ivan the terrible indeed

[Otto-matic]

Keep safe Transplant.

Keep your family safe aswell as you.

[Displaced Flames fan]

Tranny and witty stay safe. I'm glad Ivan missed my sister, so she didn't get round 3, but I'm sorry you guys are dealing with that stuff.

Lanny...Arizona has some of the worst flash floods you'll ever see.

[wittynickname]

And Ivan has returned. The remnants were pushed south, back into the Gulf of Mexico, where it redeveloped into a Tropical Storm as of 8 last night.



And coming up next, Jeanne, with another abnormal storm track.




Its been a crazy, crazy hurricane season.

[Lanny_MacDonald]

Originally posted by Displaced Flames fan@Sep 19 2004, 03:55 AM


Lanny...Arizona has some of the worst flash floods you'll ever see.

Yup, I got to see some of them in action this summer. Its pretty amazing to see bone dry desert then have this wall of water wash through, then have bone dry desert again a couple of hours later. The destructive power is impressive. Fortunately flash flooding usually happens in a six week period duing the "monsoon season". Nothing compared to what Tranny and Witty has had to go through. Those pictures are incredible. Its funny, but the storms have cause trouble in New Jersey too. Ivan flooded out my brother-in law's basement in central Jersey. Amazing year for weather.

[nfotiu]

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Lanny...Arizona has some of the worst flash floods you'll ever see.

Yup, I got to see some of them in action this summer. Its pretty amazing to see bone dry desert then have this wall of water wash through, then have bone dry desert again a couple of hours later. The destructive power is impressive. Fortunately flash flooding usually happens in a six week period duing the "monsoon season". Nothing compared to what Tranny and Witty has had to go through. Those pictures are incredible. Its funny, but the storms have cause trouble in New Jersey too. Ivan flooded out my brother-in law's basement in central Jersey. Amazing year for weather. [/b][/quote]
Gaston was actually the worst one for us this year in central Virginia. 14 inches of rain in a few hours. The trendy area of town lost 15-20 bars and restaurants that may never open again. They had 14 feet of water pushing through. We ended up with over 6 feet in our basement. I've never seen rain like that in my life. Took me 4 hours to do my normally 10 minute commute. They called it a one in 6,000 year flood event! Looks like Jeanne could be heading right at us now, too. Last year we got devastated my hurricane Isabel, and it is almost unheard of for a hurricane to make it as far inland as we are.

[octothorp]

I was reading something where some scientists who study hurricanes were saying that we could be entering a thirty-year cycle of intense hurricane systems. That's a really scary thought: that every year for the next 30 years might be this bad.

[nfotiu]

Here are some pretty crazy pictures from our Richmond flood a few weeks ago:
http://homepage.mac.com/ken.weber/Historic...Personal22.html

[BlackRedGold25]

I was driving through Ivan on the highway last Friday when it hit the Northeastern US. I was doing 60 mph with an AWD vehicle which I thought was pretty fast considering that my wipers could barely keep up with the rain. Meanwhile I had people driving Hyundais and other cars that I know don't have AWD racing past me.

How they could see the road was beyond me.

[habernac]

damn......I recognize that area well as Richmond was my home for 4 months last year.