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| Carefree |
Posted - 19 September 2014 : 20:46:38
Tropical Storm Mario (aka Fung Wong) hit the Philippines yesterday. We received just over 108 inches (266 cm) of rain in six hours. As you can imagine, there was a lot of flooding. It's not a record here, though, that belongs to Typhoon Ondoy which delivered 455 cm in the same amount of time. |
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| Carefree |
Posted - 22 September 2014 : 23:46:18
The vast majority of drivers in the furthest southern US states have never driven in snow. I know a lot of people in the deep south who have never even seen snow in person. |
| RichardKinser |
Posted - 22 September 2014 : 13:36:04
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Originally posted by bobby131313
Yeah, it's all relative. Here in the US... Buffalo NY gets 25 inches of snow and the schools are still open, Atlanta, GA gets an inch and the entire city shuts down in a panic.
It's because the southern states don't have the infrastructure in place to clear snow like the northern states do. We just throw sand on the roads, where the northern states use more efficient materials to melt snow (salt, etc.). Plus, the drivers here don't know how to drive in snow very well.
It's just easier to shut down everything for a day or two than to put the effort into trying to melt snow that won't be around long anyway. |
| Doug G |
Posted - 21 September 2014 : 23:20:42
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(apparently trained by the American Democrat Party)
Why do you add unnecessary comments like this? Do you just want to annoy people you don't know?
Anyway, that's a lot of rain, hard for me to imagine living in an area where 12" is a yearly total.
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| Carefree |
Posted - 21 September 2014 : 08:10:07
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Originally posted by bobby131313
Yeah, it's all relative. Here in the US... Buffalo NY gets 25 inches of snow and the schools are still open, Atlanta, GA gets an inch and the entire city shuts down in a panic.
Well, given an air temperature of 20F, 25 inches of snow is only just over 1.25 inches of rain. Now, multiply that by about 85 and you'll get an idea of how deep it would have been in snowfall (just over 175 feet) had this storm hit Buffalo in the winter. |
| pierretopping |
Posted - 20 September 2014 : 18:04:34
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Originally posted by Carefree
Tropical Storm Mario (aka Fung Wong) hit the Philippines yesterday. We received just over 108 inches (266 cm) of rain in six hours. As you can imagine, there was a lot of flooding. It's not a record here, though, that belongs to Typhoon Ondoy which delivered 455 cm in the same amount of time.
You will have webbed feet with all that rain, stay safe all  |
| AnonJr |
Posted - 20 September 2014 : 10:38:12
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Originally posted by bobby131313
Yeah, it's all relative. Here in the US... Buffalo NY gets 25 inches of snow and the schools are still open, Atlanta, GA gets an inch and the entire city shuts down in a panic.
I'm originally from the Massachusetts/Rhode Island area and after moving to the south it really threw me off when everything shut down over the threat of an inch of snow...
Stay safe Carefree. |
| bobby131313 |
Posted - 20 September 2014 : 09:41:44
Yeah, it's all relative. Here in the US... Buffalo NY gets 25 inches of snow and the schools are still open, Atlanta, GA gets an inch and the entire city shuts down in a panic. |
| Carefree |
Posted - 20 September 2014 : 05:16:15
Yeah and some radio host (apparently trained by the American Democrat Party) announced late last night..."Due to the rain, the streets are wet." Glad they told us, never would have recognized it without their help. |
| HuwR |
Posted - 20 September 2014 : 02:41:59
I can't even imagine that much rain we get 12 inches and the whole country grinds to a halt  |
