Got your boots on..?

Wed Sep 16, 2020 1:32 pm

Nope, just flip-flops.
Most folks in my area have received 15 to 30 inches of rain since Monday.
But it is beginning to slack off as "Sally" heads up into Alabama.

PoodlesAgain · Wed Sep 16, 2020 1:59 pm

mickey wrote: ↑Wed Sep 16, 2020 1:32 pm Nope, just flip-flops.
Most folks in my area have received 15 to 30 inches of rain since Monday.
But it is beginning to slack off as "Sally" heads up into Alabama.

Wow. So that hurricane-style rainfall comes that far ahead of the storm itself?
Just curious, where did the rain go?
Flat or hilly land, dry soil absorbing rain, porous limestone...?

Wed Sep 16, 2020 2:04 pm

PoodlesAgain wrote: ↑Wed Sep 16, 2020 1:59 pm
mickey wrote: ↑Wed Sep 16, 2020 1:32 pm Nope, just flip-flops.
Most folks in my area have received 15 to 30 inches of rain since Monday.
But it is beginning to slack off as "Sally" heads up into Alabama.
Wow. So that hurricane-style rainfall comes that far ahead of the storm itself?
Just curious, where did the rain go?
Flat or hilly land, dry soil absorbing rain, porous limestone...?

Well, this was an extremely slow moving storm. Thus the hurricane style rainfall lasted much longer than "normal."
The area "Sally" attacked is suffering from flooding "of historic proportions."
In my case I have two wells on my property, both times they went thru about 60 feet of sand before hitting anything else.
So, within 5 minutes of the rain stopping, I have no standing water.

Past hurricanes (Earl & Georges of 1998 or 1999) brought us a yard plus (or a metre plus if you are metrically inclined)
within 24 hours or less.

Pensacola is 100+ miles closer to where Sally came ashore (than I am)
And it appears Sally bit a chunk out of their bay bridge (best known as "Three Mile Bridge.")

nomadh · Wed Sep 16, 2020 2:25 pm

I have a sunken music room. If I got hit with this there would be no saving it. Now I have a 3/4 mote around it draining to a single pump. But 10 years ago I used to get water pouring through the cinder block walls and through the fireplace. On a day with a few inches after a rainy week I would have to pump my shallow holding area 12 to 15 times a day. And vacuum up water near the fireplace about 10 times a day. Well the day we went on a cruise around australia we had a 5 in a day week. My brother in law watching the house, who used to live there and knew the problem, decided to go home and not show up till noon the next day. Everything was sitting in 4" of water. Computers, boxes of documents, effects pedals, carpet, furniture and of course guitars and my friends drum set. All While I was on a boat off the coast of new zealand where there was almost no internet access or phones and was very expensive. I had relatives and friends all show up and use every towel in the house drying guitars and laying them out on beds and couches while my brother in law and his son charged me to rip out carpet and vacuum out water. When I got home The drum set was in the kitchen with the bass drum still holding water. Had to clean and put all the dried guitars back in cases. A few weeks later I open the lp custom case and where was still moisture in it somehow. The case was wet and the neck had a backbow. Took a few weeks of being out and warmer weather to get it back. Also after a few weeks I realized I was missing my all solid wood rosewood silver creek acoustic. I found it in the sweltering garage in a case. It was so light someone thought it was an empty case so it was sealed in a case and wet for 2 or 3 weeks. It dried out fine too. So as scary as this all was the only permanent damage I can think of in my musical equipment is the water causing a ply warp in the bottom of that bass drum and a fuzz box I was borrowing. Good luck everyone in the storm path.