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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.
Previously: Hurricane Florence Threatens Carolinas and Georgia on U.S. East Coast
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 17 2018, @06:32AM (11 children)
Doh. News at 11. What headline do you want?
"Big thunderstorm doesn't stop raining halfway through. Americans surprised!"
"Big thunderstorm brings lots of rain as predicted. Americans surprised!"
"After lots of rain, houses in millenia-old floodplane flooded despite prayers for the contrary. Americans surprised!" In unrelated news: "Belief in prayers on the rise - Americans more faithful than ever before"
"Unprotected infrastructure damaged by predicted rainfall 57th year in a row. Americans surprised!"
"Lots of predicted rain lead to predicted flash floods in predicted places. Americans very suprised! 14 dead"
"Big truck is not magically invincible against force-of-nature flash flood. American owner mildly surprised! Also dead."
... and lest I be called a hypocrite: no other developed or undeveloped nation on this planet would fare any differently. Except, perhaps, Australia. I refuse to have any sympathy.
(Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Monday September 17 2018, @06:34AM (3 children)
Is this the only point you were trying toi get across?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 17 2018, @06:36AM (1 child)
No. Also exasperation at human stupidity in general.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by c0lo on Monday September 17 2018, @06:41AM
Ok.
So "News at 11, an AC doesn't give a shit".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 17 2018, @06:49AM
I only have sympathy for people that i know. Everything else is a statistic.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday September 17 2018, @06:47AM (6 children)
Yesterday the WSJ ran an article about how Federal Flood Insurance has encouraged $18 Trillion in coast real estate development.
When The Big One hits, it won't be in California.
No.
It will be a hundred miles out in the Pacific from Washington and Oregon, with Aberdeen and Astoria washed out to sea by a one hundred forty food tsunami.
Good Times.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 17 2018, @06:51AM (3 children)
Cobb seamount?
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday September 17 2018, @08:47AM (2 children)
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)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday September 17 2018, @05:01PM
One of Nova Scotia's more-popular tourist attractions is white-water rafting THE WRONG WAY UPSTREAM in a tidal bore: The Bay of Fundy has some of the highest tides on Earth, with a particular river mouth being the very highest.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by richtopia on Monday September 17 2018, @05:59PM (1 child)
I think you are talking of my home, the Cascadia subduction zone. I as kept up for a few nights earlier this summer when I first started researching the potential disaster.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1700_Cascadia_earthquake#Future_threats [wikipedia.org]
My favorite quote:
Toast isn't good. Many people here have moved to gluten free diets and that much toast would be bad.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday September 17 2018, @07:00PM
What's worse is that it's only a quarter mile from my office to the Willamette River.
At least I work on the eleventh floor. By the time the Tsunami gets to downtown Portland, it's unlikely to have enough momentum to topple the Union Bank Tower.
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