The Flood Whistle has Sounded!

Mai72

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The flood whistle went off 3X just now. I live in South Jersey by the back bay. I think it's going to get bad. Water was about 4ft above ground during low tide. The wind is blowing at a steady 20mph with wind gust at about 45mph. Possibly 60mph during nightfall. It's supposed to rain hard in a few hours which will cause the flood waters to swell. It's cloudy. Only a few people are on my block now.

It's kinda creepy tbh. :confused:
 

MrSquished

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Hoping that rain goes more west than straight north up to me. Stay safe you wet whistler you.
 

Mai72

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Get out while you can!

I'm hunkered in. I can see the water on my street already. My gaming laptop came in today so I'll be upgrading the ram and putting in my 2nd hard drive. I got the Helios 300.
 

BudAshes

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Jul 20, 2003
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Get your flood pants on.

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Captante

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It sounds just like the 12 oclock whistle.


Or a low-volume air-raid siren. (seriously) :oops:

I have relatives that have a house in Seaside Heights ... things out there can get mighty scary in a big storm. (remember Sandy)

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Note the famous amusement pier that got trashed center-right. :(


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The house is fairly small but it's 3 stories high with a full-steel frame and "wash-out" first floor walls designed to give in a flood.

It also has a small platform on the very top of the roof where you can climb to escape a flood. (mom's cousin who built it in the 1960's was an engineer)

During Sandy they had 10-15 foot waves breaking through the second floor!
 
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Zorba

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I've never heard of a flood whistle.
They've sounded them in Tulsa a few times when they had to release from the lake at a rate that would flood parts of Tulsa and suburbs.

A couple years ago we had crazy flooding, River at 3x flood stage flow rate for over a month and they sounded the flood sirens every 30 minutes in the low laying areas behind the levees.
 

BudAshes

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They've sounded them in Tulsa a few times when they had to release from the lake at a rate that would flood parts of Tulsa and suburbs.

A couple years ago we had crazy flooding, River at 3x flood stage flow rate for over a month and they sounded the flood sirens every 30 minutes in the low laying areas behind the levees.

As a Californian this is an alien concept.