CNN/AP: Eastern floods force evacuations

[DeepModem Mom]

Eastern floods force evacuations
Sunday, June 25, 2006


Floods hit a Wal-Mart parking lot Sunday in Seaford, Delaware.

FEDERALSBURG, Maryland (AP) -- Heavy rains caused serious flooding Sunday in Pennsylvania, Delaware and along Maryland's Eastern Shore, washing out roads and forcing some residents to evacuate their homes. No deaths or injuries were reported.

In Maryland, 4 to 5 feet of water was reported in parts of northern Dorchester and southern Caroline County, state Emergency Management Agency spokesman Jeff Welsh said. At least 20 roads in Dorchester County were closed, and a large section of Route 307 was washed out down to the gravel, said 1st Sgt. Russell Newell, spokesman for Maryland State Police.

"It is quite a serious situation," he said.

Low-lying areas of Federalsburg, a southern Caroline County town of about 2,600 people, were flooded Sunday morning and about 45 people voluntarily evacuated, police chief Donald Nagel said. A state of emergency was declared in the city.

In the southwest Delaware town of Seaford, cars were floating in a Wal-Mart parking lot. Up to 15 people were evacuated from their homes, city spokeswoman Amy Walls said....

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WEATHER/06/25/east.flood.ap/index.html

[pooja]

1. Why can't Washington flood and force out all the crooks

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[earth mom]

32. So true and maybe then they'd get a taste of what the Katrina victims

went through! :grr:

[Captain Hilts]

42. Then who would be left behind to do the looting they usually do? nt

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. Is this usual weather?

I'm asking cause I have no idea.


Meanwhile - Portland hits record temps today and tomorrow. It feels like I'm back in AZ! :(

[GoddessOfGuinness]

12. It can happen

but it's not what I'd call typical. Normally at this time of year we might get a thunderstorm and some heavy rain a few times a week.
The heavy downpours have been going off and on since Friday evening.

[cliss]

4. Yikes. That's quite a photo.

Flooding, Portland is baking at 100+ temps, India is dry with no monsoon....

this seems biblical.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

5. still baking 11pm

it's almost 80 degrees, and that's with a 7mp breeze from the south.

ok, I exaggerate. I'm not baking, but I'm grumpy cause it's too hot to sleep. This is the second heat wave we've had this year already. I just wanna know... WTF?

[OneBlueSky]

6. something similar happened to New England a few weeks ago . . . n/t

.

[The Brethren]

7. New England was hit hard

I have family in that area and they just missed being evacuated. We've had record temps already - hitting 102 degrees one day recently...first ever for this time of the season. Something is going on...

Good luck to everyone in the flooded areas! Just caught the link on this site.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

13. 102!

I'm glad we missed out on that! The worst we've had so far was in the mid-90s. ~knock on wood~
The DC area usually has a couple of 100+ days in a summer.

[The Brethren]

16. We've gotten

up to a 100 before in late July and Aug. We're having a small break in it right now. However, after reaching records already, even our local officials were openly nervous about what to expect - namely with more fires. Maybe it's a fluke, but I think Mother Nature has decided to make some changes across the board.

Let's hope for springtime weather in Aug. for DC and my area that we didn't get.

[LiberalEsto]

18. So was Houston TX, I hear

Maybe this is the storm system from Texas

Whatever it is, it's a doozy. I live in Central Maryland, where we haven't had much rain for the past couple of months. Yesterday we got over 6 inches of rain in 24 hours.

[The Brethren]

22. we could use some of your rain

It's hot and very dry in CO. We've had too many fires already including from lightning.

Is the rain slowing down in your area? It could be from Texas, but one report i heard said they think it started with pressure building up and cycling around FL, then moving north-east. If that's the case, my first thought is this what can you expect the rest of the summer during the hurricane season?

[snooper2]

24. We haven't had any substantial rain at all for months...

In the Dallas area...

I got to water last night for about 5 hours (once a week restrictions)...

Send 5 inches of rain our way!

[LiberalEsto]

28. Coming right up!

We haven't gotten almost any rain since March. But when it rained, it poured. It still hasn't stopped.

[The Brethren]

30. We're heading over

with our buckets...we love donations. But we'll wait in line after snooper2 and our Dallas neighbors. At least we've had some rain in the past month. :D

[wordpix2]

38. maybe you should plant some dry-tolerant native species & forget the lawn

Here in CT, the grass is going nuts---everything is growing like crazy

[wordpix2]

37. we had off-and-on sun today with a strong breeze but the warm humid muggi-

ness continues this eve. Supposed to rain tomorrow. I'm in CT.

[wordpix2]

36. I'm teaching environmental ed in a summer program & suggested to my stu-

dents that maybe global warming was turning New England into a tropical rainforest, or at least a temperate one. I told them the weather reminded me of British Columbia in the summer.

[aquart]

8. When are we going to realize that our lives are permanently changed?

When are we going to face this permanent crisis?

We cannot afford a war when we have the earth itself as our enemy.

[Lost4words]

17. The Earth is our only ally and we are her only threat.

She is merely fighting infestation of a nasty parasite.

[SoCalDem]

25. Especially with every available patch of dirt being covered by asphalt

or cement..

People may be forced to realize what nature intended the ground to be... a way to percolate water into underground storage.... when it rains HARD, man-made storm sewers can only channel the rushing water into rivers that have been "tamed" ...until lots of water needs to be "processed".......

as long as people build too close to rivers and try to thwart nature, it's not surprising when stuff like this happens..

[wordpix2]

39. maybe King George will realize it when the WH is constantly flooded but

that's for the next president to solve, according to GW

[Sinistrous]

9. I had to take a major detour to bypass a flooded road

in south-central Pennsylvania last evening. The local folks I was with could not remember that road flooding before. Heavy rain is still falling.

Sinistrous

[donsu]

10. more 'newly poor' created by global warming

can you afford to lose your car to flooding? your living space damaged? etc., etc.

[mbperrin]

11. Any pictures of looters yet?

Gunshots fired at law enforcement? You know, all the nasty things that happen during floods!!!???

[undergroundpanther]

14. A freaking bridge washed out up the road from me

And Last night I and two freinds had to go out in the lightining and rain to bail out the stepwell,We got 2 buckets and a tall square empty cat litter container and just tossed water out so it wouldn't flood the basement through the backdoor .The sump pump was just going nuts ,the drain was not big enough for a fucking monsoon in minutes and couldn't cope with the deluge.

Today wasen't like yesterday Thank Sekhmet But dammit shit like this makes you paranoid listening for the pump . I haven't had to bail the stepwell out since Hurricaine Isabel.

[The Brethren]

15. watching the coverage on the news

I kept seeing cars stranded on roads, flooded up the their roofs. Doesn't look like they had much warning how serious it was. undergroundpanther, sorry you and your friends had to go through all this...and the season is just beginning.

Sinistrous...glad you made it home safely.

[mike923]

19. Here in Michigan....

it's been in the upper 70's, and rained about once or twice every 7 to 9 days. All of this coming after a winter of average temps and snow fall.

[The Brethren]

23. wanna trade places?

:) Just kidding. Michigan must have an in with TPTB.

[mike923]

27. No thanks, but ....

i'm praying for you. I hope things get better.

[The Brethren]

29. much appreciated....

Am crossing my fingers too on a "normal" summer. I don't do well in a frying pan with butter; not my style. I like cool 70s-ish, Margarita days where I don't have to worry about carrying around an AC or fire extinguisher. LOL

[undergroundpanther]

33. It was wet for sure

After we got the water down to a dull roar,and the sump pump could handle it .I had to put all our clothes in the wash, We got soaked to our damn underwear within nanoseconds. And it wasn't from tromping around in the stairwell, it was raining that hard,It was insane kinda rain. If It wasn't for all the panic over the basement flooding and that menacing lightning overhead(It would have been ugly if we had the tallest step leaders because 3 of us up to our knees in water in a stairwell holding onto a metal rail for balance..sheesh can you say we failed the lightning safety course right there?

But that said, it would have been a helluva fun idea to play football or something like tag or wrestling out there in the deluge.Frankly it was kinda cool it was like a bathroom shower on you but everyfuckingwhere..I dunno I'm weird, I like extreme weather, I wanted more than ANYTHING to be a meteorologist tornado chaser in 6th grade.

Maybe it had to do with seeing a tornado when I was like 4 or 5,it came out of the boiling clouds ,a spindly funnel slowly bending down until it began sweeping the top of the tree line in a soybean field right across from our house. I was fascinated, I stood there like a numb nuts watching it move,closer and the sounds unforgettable power..My father was yelling for me to GIT inside the house RIGHT NOW,Goddammit and I could not hear him, So he ran out grabbed my ass picked me up ran inside and we all sat in the basement for awhile listening to the radio and I wanted to go back outside and My father said If I walked up those goddamn steps he'd tan my hide so bad I wouldn't sit down for a month.

When he said shit like that I never knew if he was bluffing or not because he was an abusive asshole, So I stayed downstairs,knowing I wouldn't be able to outrun him in a tornado ,I sat there peering or trying to out of the dirty window well to see the tornado and my mom was saying every five minutes get away from the window..So I'd scoot my chair like an inch away. I was really fascinated. I didn't understand the fuss I was a silly kid.

That tornado never really touched down.I watched the News on TV saw the downed trees and all..But My love affair with extreme weather was already started I was into Lightening,I devoured everything about weather I could get my paws on for years.I still read weather stuff if I see it.I got a cool weather book collection. I had lightning photos,tiger posters and a big tornado paster from the wizard of oz in my room, And seeing this tornado just made it all worse.Now I admit I am a weather junky and I would still jump at the chance to chase tornadoes and do insane crap like watch hurricane storm surges break over the harbor seawalls. Incorrigible I guess .

[soup]

20. Unfortunately, there may be more rain on the way.

http://www.skeetobiteweather.com/index.asp

Keep an eye on it:

National Weather Service
http://www.weather.gov/

Storm2k
http://www.storm2k.org/wx/

Weather Underground:
http://www.wunderground.com/

Stay safe, everyone.

[CabalPowered]

21. The forecasted precipitation amounts are ugly

[The Brethren]

26. thanks

CabalPowered and soup for the maps and links.

[CabalPowered]

31. Hope you stay dry!

and welcome to DU!

[undergroundpanther]

34. the only way to

stay dry in this is to not go outside. AT ALL.*smirk* It's so freaking humid out here you will get wet from the friggin AIR.
Never mind the sweat you get wet before the glands realize it's hot...Everything is saturated.Puddle paradise.
Hmmm Maybe I should get off this 'puter and hit the mailbox soon,it's clouding up again ..Anybody wanna bet me if I got warped mail!'Cause I didn't even bother getting mail yesterday it was a deluge..LOL..

[wordpix2]

40. huge band of rain and thunderstorms headed for E. Coast now--very big

south to north

[The Brethren]

41. Also flooding in VA

...news announced in the Virginia Beach area. Am checking in with family and friends on the east coast.

thank you wordpix for the information.

[screembloodymurder]

35. Look on the bright side.

I finally got my boat in the water.