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Stuff like this always makes me look up the elevation of my town for no apparent reason. Norwood is 146ft above see level, I will forget this information within the next 10 minutes.
Sharkicaine is real...
saw on Fox News this morning the storm will make landfall as a cat2 and then seemingly quickly downgrade to a cat 1. Not great news but better then a cat 3 like they were predicting yesterday. Still will be. devastating storm.
It will be interesting to see how it really turns out. Seems like it degraded awfully quickly. A few days back they were hyping how it was a CAT 4 and "could become a CAT 5". Now it's degrading quickly to a CAT 2 and maybe a CAT 1. There's still the problem of all the rain, but I've noticed they're even downgrading their predictions on rainfall.
Something like 1.7 million people were evacuated.
I wonder if this will turn into another Deval Patrick storm event where he locks the state down and we end up with 4 inches of snow.
Yeah, a lot of people evacuated. So really if you are trying to make the call you are either damned if you do or damned if you don't. If they didn't evacuate and it came ashore as a cat 5 a lot of people would have died. I guess they could have made it a voluntary evacuation order. But as you pointed out they were predicting this as a cat 5 event. Cat 2 is still nothing to sneeze at...and it is losing strength quickly. I'm not one for crying wold but the decision was made with best intel they had..
A Cat 5 hurricane that could drop 36 inches of rain is a completely different level of event than blizzard up in MA that drops 36 inches of snow. I will grant you that. The problem the way I see it is that "we" seem to have gotten to a place where everything has to be hyped up like the next Hollywood movie. The TV weather people and even the NOAA seem to suffering from some sort of storm porn psychosis - and the dumbass politicians use it an excuse to get all Hitlery on the situation and start ordering people around.
There's no fighting a Cat 5 hurricane when it's coming for you - but the lockdowns we get up here are just stoopid. I'm old enough to remember the Blizzard of 78 - and life went on. The martial law shit is just out of control.
Elevation was one thing I definitely looked at when I bought my house back in 99. I'm at the top of a gentle hill. It doesn't help with basement flooding - but at least I won't get swept away if any rivers near me overflow.
Can anyone explain this? How do we get basement flooding (through the freaking walls and floor) at the top of a hill? Shouldn't the water flow downhill and flood the neighbor's basement? This is for regular rain, not a hurricane storm surge.
Poor perimeter drains, improper site-scaping, springs, etc. There are any number of ways a foundation can fail no matter where it is.
I would imagine even good perimeter drains and proper grading won't be enough to handle 30+ inches of rain. The ground would be quickly overwhelmed with rainwater and eventually start finding ways to get through the foundation - especially if you have an older block wall like mine. But I have no experience with this level of rainfall.Can anyone explain this? How do we get basement flooding (through the freaking walls and floor) at the top of a hill? Shouldn't the water flow downhill and flood the neighbor's basement? This is for regular rain, not a hurricane storm surge.
Ground water levels are a mysterious thing. I've never had water in my basement, but my neighbor across the street, who is half way up a hill and 30' higher than me, is a different story. He's got an underground spring. Once he was digging and felt like Jed Clampet, but it was water that bubbled up, not oil. In 40 years his basement had never been wet. Then we had a small earthquake (2012 I think) which we believe collapsed the underground stream and caused it to form an underground lake around his house. He had to install the house's first ever sump pump because now in dry weather the water table around his house is less than a foot below the basement floor, and in wet weather the pump runs continuously.Can anyone explain this? How do we get basement flooding (through the freaking walls and floor) at the top of a hill? Shouldn't the water flow downhill and flood the neighbor's basement? This is for regular rain, not a hurricane storm surge.
Can anyone explain this? How do we get basement flooding (through the freaking walls and floor) at the top of a hill? Shouldn't the water flow downhill and flood the neighbor's basement? This is for regular rain, not a hurricane storm surge.
I would imagine even good perimeter drains and proper grading won't be enough to handle 30+ inches of rain. The ground would be quickly overwhelmed with rainwater and eventually start finding ways to get through the foundation - especially if you have an older block wall like mine. But I have no experience with this level of rainfall.
I know a couple of guys who have houses on the side of mountains. They get flooding issues in their basements because the water coming down the side of the mountain in the ground seeks the path of least resistance - which is their basement.
You can fix problems like this by putting strategerically placed drainage uphill from the basement and diverting the underground water before it gets there.
Can anyone explain this? How do we get basement flooding (through the freaking walls and floor) at the top of a hill? Shouldn't the water flow downhill and flood the neighbor's basement? This is for regular rain, not a hurricane storm surge.
Quick update. Wife & I are safely evacuated 325 miles and 3500 feet up in the mountains, staying at friends near the blue ridge parkway.
We have neighbors across the street who said they lost power at 5pm. So far the water is draining ok, and only limbs and leaves down in the neighborhood. Our house looked ok as of dusk.
Thanks y'all for the well wishes, and offers of assistance. It means a lot.
Our place on the side of Mt Sunapee is built on a slab. There is 1400’ of mountain above us, and a spring that runs through the back yard.I know a couple of guys who have houses on the side of mountains. They get flooding issues in their basements because the water coming down the side of the mountain in the ground seeks the path of least resistance - which is their basement.
I've also know people who never had a wet basement until some major construction or grading was done nearby.