the winds and weather go round and round, the sun comes up and rain comes down. learn it, live it, love it.
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the winds and weather go round and round, the sun comes up and rain comes down. learn it, live it, love it.
I lived in the Charleston SC area for over 35 years and downtown Charleston ALWAYS floods it doesn't have to be a tropical storm just heavy rain. I can't count how many times it did when I lived there but it's called the Low Country for a good reason.
Why Does It Seem Like
Charleston Always Floods When
It Rains?
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The Greater Charleston area has experienced
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drainage and flooding problems since its
founding more than 300 years ago.
It is difficult to drain a city that is surrounded
by water, next to the ocean, and only a few
feet above mean sea level in many places.
Various drainage techniques have been
implemented since the 1800s with varying
degrees of success.
Hurricane Patricia now coming ashore in Mexico as a Category 5-
Live video feed here:
Watch out Texas-it is headed your way soon.....Quote:
Live video cam from Hurricane Patricia
Now sure how long the feed from the Mexican coast will last, but you can see conditions worsen as Patricia nears landfall:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP5Y4lISF0s
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Another beach front live webcam:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n9QogL9IyE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n9QogL9IyE
Megastorm Patricia inflicts little damage on Mexican coast
CHAMELA, Mexico (AP) — Just a day after menacing Mexico as one of history's strongest storms, Hurricane Patricia left surprisingly little damage in its wake Saturday and quickly dissipated into a low-pressure system that posed little threat beyond heavy rain.
The hurricane's most powerful punch landed on a sparsely populated stretch of Mexico's Pacific Coast before the system crashed into mountains that sapped its potentially catastrophic force. The popular beach city of Puerto Vallarta and the port of Manzanillo were spared the brunt of the violent weather.
Authorities were still checking on some isolated areas, where roads had been blocked by downed trees, but the devastation appeared to be far less than feared.
There were no reports of deaths or injuries, said Roberto Lopez Lara, interior secretary for the state of Jalisco. Later, President Enrique Pena Nieto reported that between 3,000 and 3,500 homes had been damaged and the storm also affected 3,500 hectares (about 8,650 acres) of farmland. He said 235,000 people had lost electricity when the storm hit, and about half had power restored by Saturday.
It was a remarkable outcome, considering that Patricia had once been a Category 5 hurricane with winds up to 200 mph (325 kph) before coming ashore with slightly less power in an area dotted with sleepy villages and a few upscale hotels. [more]
http://ak.imgfarm.com/images/ap/thum..._20151025.jpeg (AP) Residents walk through the debris of homes destroyed by Hurricane Patricia, in...
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My Way News - Megastorm Patricia inflicts little damage on Mexican coast
miracle no lives were lost. Homes were destroyed, not simply damaged, according to the photo and caption. am sure the people in those sleepy villages whose homes were destroyed will be struggling mightily to replace what was lost. article downplays impacts to their lives. but the people in the villages are likely to pull together to help those impacted, friends and family, to the extent their limited resources can stretch. those 8000 acres of damaged farmland may represent a year's income for a lot of those people. just a thought, it's all in a person's perspective how big the impacts actually are.