----- Original Message ----- From: "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 9:50 AM Subject: Re: heavy rains, floodwater
> Kevin Tarr wrote: > > > > Sunday night in SOUTH central PA there was a train of thunderstorms, a line > > that pops up over the same area and moves in the direction of the storm > > front, instead of tracking perpendicular. Estimates say there was 6+ inches > > in four hours in some places. But from a different source estimates from > > Doppler radar can be high when hail is in a storm, usually doubling the > > actual amount that fell. > > > > Sadly two people died in the flood waters from the storm. But only one > > story stated that the person drove onto a bridge already covered with > > water. While I have sympathy for the dead, every story should be stating > > the wrong decision that lead to the deaths instead of ignoring it. > > > > Kevin T. - VRWC > > News you can use > > They're not playing that up? > > Around here, whenever there's a storm system leading to flooding, every > media outlet I'm aware of warns everyone not to drive over bridges > covered with water. Repeatedly. And there's always at least one idiot > who ignores all the warnings, usually before the flooding situation is > over, and they start reporting *that* immediately, and that's usually > enough to keep everyone else from being that sort of an idiot. (If > there are 2 or 3 such cases, they usually happen close enough together > that the first one hadn't made enough news outlets to have an impact on > the others.) > I just got home from work a few minutes ago. For about 40 minutes I was stuck outdoors in what amounted to tropical storm weather. The wind was blowing very hard and shifting direction constantly, with about 300 degrees of variation. I was waiting for a tornado to hit the Park'n'Ride where I and eight or so others unsuccessfully tried to avoid the rain. Lots of thunder and lightning. The squall lasted about a half hour before it died down into more or less normal rainstorms. Of course then all the streets are flooded and traffic steeps in the heat of windshield defrosters. The coast is really a great place to see some awe inspiring storms. xponent Poet/Reporter Maru rob
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