Record rainfall

[Nohow]

The Ft Lauderdale airport got record rainfall yesterday, 26 inches in 24 hours.
23 inches in 7 hours.
They closed it down.

 

[Woodpecker]

Sunshine State

 

[Nohow]

Sunshine State

Land of hurricanes, cockroaches, mosquitos, lightening, tornados, unbearable heat, humidity, and rednecks.

 

[psuro]

You'r gonna need a bigger boat.

 

[psuro]

The Ft Lauderdale airport got record rainfall yesterday, 26 inches in 24 hours.
25 inches in 7 hours.
They closed it down.

Looks like the blew most of their load in a short time and the rest was just dribble.

 

[Bkmtnittany1]

Looks like the blew most of their load in a short time and the rest was just dribble.

Shrinkage!

 

[Bwifan]

Just drove by FLL ... still at least 12 inches of water on the north runways and taxiways. Literally looks like a gigantic lake. Can't see land anywhere. Cargo planes on the tarmac have stairs that go down into deep water. South side runways look better and look to be drying. Not sure they are going to make the 5am opening tomorrow morning.

 

[Nitwit]

I hope all their voting machines still work.

 

[step.eng69]

You'r gonna need a bigger boat.

Looks like the blew most of their load in a short time and the rest was just dribble.

The Ft Lauderdale airport got record rainfall yesterday, 26 inches in 24 hours.
23 inches in 7 hours.
They closed it down.

'ro', it's been a long time since I dabbled in hydrology & storm water design, but if I recall, 8 to 10 inches of rain fall in a 24 hr period would be equivalent to a 100 yr storm (1% chance of happening in a given yr).
Three times the rain fall depth in these reports, have to seriously reevaluate the storm water design and hydrology methods.

 

[BiochemPSU]

I would avoid any “great deals” on used cars out of broward county for a few months.

 

[psuro]

'ro', it's been a long time since I dabbled in hydrology & storm water design, but if I recall, 8 to 10 inches of rain fall in a 24 hr period would be equivalent to a 100 yr storm (1% chance of happening in a given yr).
Three times the rain fall depth in these reports, have to seriously reevaluate the storm water design and hydrology methods.

Yes, I agree. And I have barely dabbled in it at all, but listen as my colleagues who engineer storm water conveyance systems discuss these issues.
They need to design for a more serious threat, or everyone needs to figure out which 2 animals they like the best to bring with them.

 

[kgilbert78]

I was in Chicago the time they had 24 in. in 24 h. My wife's car got flooded in the hotel lot and we had to tow it home (same night the TWA plane blew up).

 

[Bwifan]

FLL just is opening at 9am... what a mess. Still a bunch of water there but finally drying out. People have been stranded a long time. Airlines that had planes in the air and put planes down in Jacksonville when the airport closed actually bused people from Jville to FLL yesterday finally. After giving them a $12 lunch voucher.

 

[Relayer]

Flew out of FLL this morning. Everything was running smoothly. We spent a great week at sea on Celebrity Apex.

 

[Bvillebaron]

Land of hurricanes, cockroaches, mosquitos, lightening, tornados, unbearable heat, humidity, and rednecks.

Given that so many are leaving for Florida what does that say about New York?

 

[razpsu]

The Ft Lauderdale airport got record rainfall yesterday, 26 inches in 24 hours.
23 inches in 7 hours.
They closed it down.

Don’t worry I’m sure the news will be reporting a drought soon enough and the end of the world.

 

[Pocono Lion]

Land of hurricanes, cockroaches, mosquitos, lightening, tornados, unbearable heat, humidity, and rednecks.

You forgot alligators.

 

[Nitt1300]

You forgot alligators.

we should give it back to Spain