Mike Stafford
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The weather forecasters say that the temperature will not be above 80 degrees today which is like winter compared to the temperatures we have been having.
The price we have to pay for this "cold front" is a little storm named Elsa. It's projected path, i.e. cone of uncertainty, has it passing right over my house which is about par for the course. It seems that every storm that makes landfall ends up traversing the coastal plain of N.C. It seems that all of these storms take great pleasure in drowning my garden.
They are predicting some number of inches of rain. Not only is there a cone of uncertainty with respect to the actual path this storm will travel there is not much more than a SWAG as to how much rain it will drop. Rain is of utmost concern in my neck of the woods. The little town I live in was flooded by Hurricane Floyd in 1999 when Floyd and Dennis dropped about 60 inches of rain within the span of a week. Over 40% of the city was flooded. A number of our friends lost their homes. I even had to go out during the storm and rescue some friends who had to leave their house because the water came up so fast. They were standing out in the middle of the road during the storm with the clothes on their back and a couple of cell phones. It was really scary driving in that storm to pick them up. The roads I traveled to get to them were not flooded but there was water everywhere else.
I had never experienced this kind of flooding. I had seen it on TV but until you have been in 400,000 square foot commercial bakery which had 69 inches of water in it you cannot appreciate the scope of the damage that flooding causes. To see the homes of friends destroyed beyond belief is something I will never forget. I hope to never have to experience it again.
Go away Elsa and leave everyone alone.
The price we have to pay for this "cold front" is a little storm named Elsa. It's projected path, i.e. cone of uncertainty, has it passing right over my house which is about par for the course. It seems that every storm that makes landfall ends up traversing the coastal plain of N.C. It seems that all of these storms take great pleasure in drowning my garden.
They are predicting some number of inches of rain. Not only is there a cone of uncertainty with respect to the actual path this storm will travel there is not much more than a SWAG as to how much rain it will drop. Rain is of utmost concern in my neck of the woods. The little town I live in was flooded by Hurricane Floyd in 1999 when Floyd and Dennis dropped about 60 inches of rain within the span of a week. Over 40% of the city was flooded. A number of our friends lost their homes. I even had to go out during the storm and rescue some friends who had to leave their house because the water came up so fast. They were standing out in the middle of the road during the storm with the clothes on their back and a couple of cell phones. It was really scary driving in that storm to pick them up. The roads I traveled to get to them were not flooded but there was water everywhere else.
I had never experienced this kind of flooding. I had seen it on TV but until you have been in 400,000 square foot commercial bakery which had 69 inches of water in it you cannot appreciate the scope of the damage that flooding causes. To see the homes of friends destroyed beyond belief is something I will never forget. I hope to never have to experience it again.
Go away Elsa and leave everyone alone.