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Tropical Depression Florence Continues to Dump Rain on the Carolinas

posted by chromas on Monday September 17 2018, @04:20AM   Printer-friendly
from the depressing-news dept.

takyon writes:

Florence bringing 'catastrophic' flooding, mudslides deep into North Carolina

Rivers approached record flood stage and more than 680,000 utility customers were without power Sunday as North Carolina struggled under the crushing fury of Florence, the mighty hurricane diminished to a tropical depression but still pounding the region with unrelenting rain.

The Florence death toll rose to 14 Sunday after a truck lost control on a flooded South Carolina.

Florence has stalled over the Carolinas and was forecast to dump up to 10 more inches of rain in some areas, the National Hurricane Center said. Parts of southeastern North Carolina could see up to 40 inches before the rain ends Monday. And the damage isn't confined to the coast.

"These rainfall amounts will produce catastrophic flash flooding, prolonged significant river flooding and an elevated risk for landslides in western North Carolina and far southwest Virginia," the hurricane center warned.

Sections of two interstates, I-40 and I-95, were shut down due to flooding and debris. Several rivers were approaching record levels, and officials warned that cresting in some areas won't come until later in the week.

National Hurricane Center.

Previously: Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast

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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday September 17 2018, @08:47AM (2 children)

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Monday September 17 2018, @08:47AM (#735901) Homepage Journal

    My understanding is that it is only recently that it's been discovered it may be the source of The Big One.

    http://www.columbian.com/news/2015/feb/19/tsunami-surge-could-push-far-up-columbia/ [columbian.com]

    I got that 140' tsunami figure from a news article, but I don't recall where. I'll dig it up and post it in a reply sometime soon.

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday September 17 2018, @03:46PM (1 child)

    by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Monday September 17 2018, @03:46PM (#736014) Homepage
    Those high tsunami heights are generally caused by funnelling. Into an inlet they go, they realise they have nowhere else to go when they reach the end, so they just splash up instead, momentum being momentum. An interesting quirk that's not funnelling is when they diffract around islands, and the far side of the island can suffer more damage than the near side - the tsunami has split into 2 tsunamis that by the time they've run around the sides of the island are now heading towards each other. What could possibly go wrong?
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