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13Gigatons

13Gigatons

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18 Trillion Gallons of water....close to the 25 Trillion of Harvey.

Meteorologist Ryan Maue of weathermodels.com calculated that Florence could dump a staggering 18 trillion gallons of rain over a week on North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky and Maryland. That’s enough to fill the Chesapeake Bay, or cover the entire state of Texas with nearly 4 inches of water.

North Carolina alone is forecast to get 9.6 trillion gallons, enough to cover the Tar Heel state to a depth of about 10 inches.
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13Gigatons

13Gigatons

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Wow still raining in the same area....started Thursday and still heavy downpours until at least Monday.
 
sdifox

sdifox

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I guess there is going to be a lot of pig waste pond breach. Why haven't the government closed down those pig farms in floodplains? They should have learned by now.
 
zinfamous

zinfamous

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sdifox said:
I guess there is going to be a lot of pig waste pond breach. Why haven't the government closed down those pig farms in floodplains? They should have learned by now.
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Decades and decades of Jesse Helms.

Long-standing gov't-enforced defense of eastern NC hog-farmers, just turn your heads while they flood their hog lagoons (literally: hog shit) ahead of major storms, because the water will wash it off their land and into the Cape Fear and Neuse rivers, which then leads to red tides/diatoms, massive fish kill-offs in the sounds and toxic water.
 
T_Yamamoto

T_Yamamoto

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zinfamous said:
Decades and decades of Jesse Helms.

Long-standing gov't-enforced defense of eastern NC hog-farmers, just turn your heads while they flood their hog lagoons (literally: hog shit) ahead of major storms, because the water will wash it off their land and into the Cape Fear and Neuse rivers, which then leads to red tides/diatoms, massive fish kill-offs in the sounds and toxic water.
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That's NC for you

Sidenote, Raleigh only got rain (from light to moderate, nothing too heavy) and some wind. Not even worth posting before after photos
 
shortylickens

shortylickens

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Virginny did have lots of rain and wind, but no real damage. Warning of flash floods as well, but nothing happened.
 
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conehead433

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Full disclosure - I haven't read any but the last page of this thread. I'm feeling very little sympathy for all these folks who elected to stay and are having to be rescued. The Weather Channel as well as other news outlets had forecast the slow crawl of this storm after it made landfall, so that basically it was going to be another Harvey with massive widespread flooding. The worst thing that happened here was that the hurricane's strength lessened as it neared landfall making many think that they were safe and could ride it out. All that said, maybe if they started making everyone who has to be rescued who was actually able to leave to pay for their rescue, Make this the case for every hurricane and just maybe we won't have so many idiots who think they should just stay.
 
zinfamous

zinfamous

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T_Yamamoto said:
lol, honestly not sure.

seeing crabtree flood is so hilariously bad. the fact that they never try to fix the issue kills me inside.
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You can't really fix it. It's the lowest point in the city. The only way to fix it is that they never should have developed that shit mall out there in the first place, haha.

Dad grew up a few feet away on Leeseville road--which was renamed LeadmIne about 30 years ago when Leeseville became some other road, essentially named for the new high school. Back then, it was like 7 houses and a giant grassy valley. Not to shit on development in general, but stupid development will always be stupid development.
 
zinfamous

zinfamous

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conehead433 said:
Full disclosure - I haven't read any but the last page of this thread. I'm feeling very little sympathy for all these folks who elected to stay and are having to be rescued. The Weather Channel as well as other news outlets had forecast the slow crawl of this storm after it made landfall, so that basically it was going to be another Harvey with massive widespread flooding. The worst thing that happened here was that the hurricane's strength lessened as it neared landfall making many think that they were safe and could ride it out. All that said, maybe if they started making everyone who has to be rescued who was actually able to leave to pay for their rescue, Make this the case for every hurricane and just maybe we won't have so many idiots who think they should just stay.
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It's always going to happen. Humans almost always react irrationally in pressure situations. There is a strange, strong attachment to place and for many people, especially in these parts of the state where people generally don't move about a lot anyway, that is just too hard to shake.
 
Svnla

Svnla

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Latest news, almost 2 million of chickens are drowned and unknown number of pigs are dead from the storm water. Eggs, chicken, and pork will go up in prices in supermarkets shortly for sure.

Oh, and mountain of coal ash and pig manure lagoons are swept away by the water. Talk about huge pollution problem.
 
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13Gigatons

13Gigatons

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I wouldn't want to live there after the flooding. It spreads all kinds of bad stuff around. Heavy Metals, bacteria, chemicals, etc, that will remain in the soil for years. If a house has flooded then you can never really trust that it's not going to be a health hazard.
 
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T_Yamamoto

T_Yamamoto

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zinfamous said:
You can't really fix it. It's the lowest point in the city. The only way to fix it is that they never should have developed that shit mall out there in the first place, haha.

Dad grew up a few feet away on Leeseville road--which was renamed LeadmIne about 30 years ago when Leeseville became some other road, essentially named for the new high school. Back then, it was like 7 houses and a giant grassy valley. Not to shit on development in general, but stupid development will always be stupid development.
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I actually live very close to Leesville (the schools), like walking distance close.
 
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