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Major Hurricane Florence: STORM MODE THREAD


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Flash Flood Emergency for the city of Charlotte. Very strong wording with this one. 

* Flash Flood Warning for...
  Mecklenburg County in the Piedmont of North Carolina...

* Until 730 PM EDT Sunday.

* At 123 PM EDT, emergency management reported severe impacts from
  flash flooding in Mecklenburg County. Streams and creeks are
  running very high in South Charlotte, Matthews, and nearby areas.
  In some areas these bodies of water have risen to record stages
  and the extent of impacts may be unprecedented in some
  locations...flooding areas which have not flooded in recent
  memory. Up to three inches of rain have fallen since early
  morning, with an additional 2 to 4 inches likely to fall through
  tomorrow morning. Flash flooding will continue.

  This is a FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCY for central and southeast
Mecklenburg County. This is a PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION. SEEK
HIGHER GROUND NOW!
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4 hours ago, Tibet said:

I'd bet that this is related to flooding taking out the tracks.

 

http://www.fox46charlotte.com/news/local-news/train-derailment-in-anson-county

 

photos look like it was a pretty dramatic event.

Yeah looks like from the pictures that the rails were on a grade of gravel. I’m no civil engineer and have no idea how different rail track foundations are but if there was a flooding or a current of water going over that area it could of easily washed away or loosened up the ground underneath the tracks making their support of a heavy freight train non-existent and therefore buckling the tracks when it rode over it. Just a guess of course. 

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With the rain that deluged Wilmington, NC from Hurricane Florence, 2018 is now the wettest year on record in Wilmington. Through 1 pm EDT today, Wilmington has received 86.25" rain.
The five wettest years on record are:

1. 86.25", 2018
2. 83.65", 1877
3. 73.49", 2015
4. 72.06", 1999
5. 72.05", 1946

Four of the ten wettest years on record have occurred 2000 or later and one of ten driest years on record occurred 2000 or later. The driest year on record was 1909 when annual precipitation came to 27.68".

Records for Wilmington go back to 1871.

 

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