And at my house in Centerville, VA the neighbors cars were floating down
the street past my house. Bull Run (yes, the Bull Run of the Civil War)
which is normally a creek about 20 feet wide and a foot deep was about a
mile wide. I remember it well.
Chuck Norcutt
On 8/28/2011 7:32 PM, Chris Trask wrote:
>>
>> I just finished watching the evening news. Fortunately for coastal NY
> the
>> storm had lost some of its intensity by the time it made its third
> landfall
>> on Long Island. The storm surge was far less than predicted but plenty of
>> wind and rain to go around. The big story was the rain on the western side
>> of the storm. The inland areas received 8-10 inches of rain in an area
> that
>> was already saturated from a wet summer season. LOTS of flooding. Most of
>> the fatalities have been due to the falling trees but there were also a
> few
>> who have to test Darwin's Theory by going down to the beach to check
> things
>> out.
>> Stay safe guys.
>>
>
> Fortunately, this storm lost most of it's strength while it was still
> just off the coast. I lived through the Agnes storm in 1972, which
> basically went right up the Susquehanna River and then into south-central
> New York. Everything from Williamsport to Chesapeake Bay was flooded, as
> was the Juniata and other major tributaries.
>
> Chris
>
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