The Weather Thread

[donbosco]

 

[Zoo_View]

“Pave over paradise and make a parking lot” and you tend to fuck things up……in big ways.

 

[Calheel]

Eastgate has flooded since it was built in 1958.

Nothing should have been built there.

It’s a fucking flood zone “uphill” from a swamp close to the confluence of New Hope, Booker, Bolin, and Morgan Creeks.

Booker Creek ostensibly runs under Eastgate headed towards the Rainbow Soccer fields, University Mall, Glen Lennox…..you know……places that flood in heavy rains.

Squids has generally been just high enough to not swamp.

Yes. Eastgate floods all the time. But this one looks like it has swamped the Elliot road area too, so that doesn’t bode well.

 

[Zoo_View]

Yes. Eastgate floods all the time. But this one looks like it has swamped the Elliot road area too, so that doesn’t bode well.

The Eastern Portion of Elliot Road is basically Eastgate and the SWAMP to the east of Chapel Hill…….with more roofs and pavement than 5 years ago…..especially on the Colony Woods/Ridgefield/Ephesus Church side of “The By-Pass.”

It’s laughable the development that Chapel Hill has permitted in that SWAMP (15-501 Boulevard/Eastgate/East Elliot Road [yes, it exists]/Estes/University Mall/Rainbow Fields/Glen Lennox).

The area floods if 20 guys go outside to pee.

 

[Duke Mu]

These Warm Core beasts.

 

[donbosco]

Friend in North Chatham writes:


“Earlier tonight on Bynum Bridge... the water levels went from four feet to 18 feet in 3 hours! 60,000 cubic feet of water ( and giant logs) were passing under the bridge per second!

The bridge also flooded a fifth of the way across not from the river itself, rather from the water and debris pouring down the hill and blocking the drain holes turning the bridge into a chute.”