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Apparently the water from a pond (probably more like a lake now) has reached my cousin's house down in Myrtle Beach. Not sure if water is getting inside the house though. My aunt's condo has an overflowing pool. What a mess down there.
This is why when I went house shopping, I made sure to buy high (not price-wise) instead of low. I automatically rule out houses sitting anywhere near a flood plain.
I think most people have a poor grasp of geography and topography - they don't have any idea of what's low-lying and what's safe from even 1000-year floods.
I just wish it came as easy for them as it does for me... :/
Yup.. Around here we have wet lands, brooks, Lakes, Rivers, hills, low lying areas... I remember a realtor showing me a house where it was sloped from the street to the house. Driveway went "down" to the house. I was like, nope... lets move on. lol Not only from an annoying stand point and winter related but I don't want to see water coming "towards" my house with each rain event.
I see areas flood easy.. I saw areas flood that I didn't think would during Irene. Insurance is higher for flood zone areas.
But again, in a situation like we have now there were areas that never flood before in 100+ years. Areas where you didn't think overflow from rivers or 20 inches of rain would flood. We'll be hearing some wild stories out of all this eventually.
Insane! This might remind us of how there were so many cars that became in-operable from Katrina and Sandy and Irene flooding that people later on needed to be aware of what cars they were buying down the road. Make sure it wasn't part of the flood.
Also most of the water that's falling is salt water. I know our trees were showing the Ocean salt stress after the 2 Tropical systems that hit us.
What??? Salt water does not fall out of the clouds. Salt cannot evaporate thus rain does not contain salt. Salt spray may be blown inland by strong winds on the coast or picked up by a waterspout and dropped inland.
What??? Salt water does not fall out of the clouds. Salt cannot evaporate thus rain does not contain salt. Salt spray may be blown inland by strong winds on the coast or picked up by a waterspout and dropped inland.
Nope.. we got a lot of damage from the tropical systems, it wasnt just "rain".. you can smell the air was different...salty..it was carried over from the ocean.. dont know the scientific explanation but it was obvious what it did.
"Experts told the Connecticut Post that salt water spray from the storms damaged thousands of white pines along the shore and even miles inland from Greenwich to Stonington. Many trees' needles have turned to a coppery brown"
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