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Ever See So Much Rain and Floods?

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PAUL161

PAUL161

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I have never heard of so much rain and flooding as has been in the past few months. My dad always said, "every few years a weather cycle will take place from dry to wet and visa versa". I have to believe him as in his 92 years and a lot of those were farming, I guess he should have absorbed a little bit of knowledge about the weather. It sure does seem abnormal though.
 
Not so long ago there were massive floods in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. At least one whole town was wiped out, and houses near the rivers were destroyed.

It happens.
 
I bet Charlotte gets more rain than Seattle.
 
Was it '93 when the Mississippi flooded & St Louis was pretty much surrounded by a huge lake?
 
Something like that Tony.

Occasionally there have been really bad ones along the eastern states from tropical systems hanging around. Back in '69 the Charlottesville VA was devastated - people disappeared in that one and have never been found. In the 1770s there was one that was all over the state, entire farms were wiped out.
 
aerog said:
... In the 1770s there was one that was all over the state, entire farms were wiped out.
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Think Doc remembers that one.
 
Yeah, but I wuz livin' in a cave in th' Allegheny foothills up Pennsylvania way, back then. :smirk:
 
Might have been Lutherans,can't remember which religion owned that state then.
 
All paleface look'd th' same.
 
I grew up in Johnstown, PA. Floods are the things that happen there every 40-50 years, whether you want them or not. I wasn't around for the first two, but in 1977 we got 12.5 inches of rain in a six hour period. It WAS NOT a pretty site for the next year.
 
I went through a 200 year storm in England. Hurricane strength winds. It was wierd - we are only used to mediocre weather - nothing extreme like that was.

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Then a similar thing happened in 1990 to dispell the 200 year storm theory!
 
I believe it was back in 1987, the wife and I were in the Wisconsin Dells during a rain storm that dropped 6 1/2 inches in just a couple of hours. I've never encountered anything like that since and hope I never do. I believe it wasn't a large storm as far as area goes and did not cause a lot of damage.
 
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