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Carolina Fever said:
More rain and flooding today. I don't think I remember a summer in NC that has had as much flooding as this one has.
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Torrential rains in SW Orange County and Saxapahaw since 5:45.

I agree on the rain.

In the late ‘60’s and ‘70’s, lack of July, August, and September rainfall came close to shutting UNC several years.

A pipeline from Durham was dug and created. It was supplemental - not enough water to solve the problem (University Lake was made for a tiny UNC Campus).

UNC dug a well to supply water to the Bowman Gray Pool (the indoor pool at Woollen Gym) and the Kessing Pool (the outdoor 50-yard, 8-lane pool behind Woollen). Chapel Hill enacted water restrictions that closed pools that were well-fed.

I think other wells were dug to provide water for Kenan and other athletic fields.

The droughts in those days were acute.

I remember 3 years working out in a SHITTY pool at NCCU in August because all pools were closed in Chapel Hill. I already knew “separate, but equal” was bullshit……the difference between the UNC Indoor Pool (Bowman Gray) and the NCCU pool was stark. NCCU’s pool was shit…..it was worse than the Johnson Memorial Y pool in Charlotte or the Lakewood Y Pool in Durham…….and those were SHITTY pools.
 
Is there an accurate way to check monthly or year-to-date rainfall totals versus historical averages? Can’t find a great source of data and Google’s AI result says Winston-Salem is having a drier than normal year which doesn’t seem right.
 
Zoo_View said:
Torrential rains in SW Orange County and Saxapahaw since 5:45.

I agree on the rain.

In the late ‘60’s and ‘70’s, lack of July, August, and September rainfall came close to shutting UNC several years.

A pipeline from Durham was dug and created. It was supplemental - not enough water to solve the problem (University Lake was made for a tiny UNC Campus).

UNC dug a well to supply water to the Bowman Gray Pool (the indoor pool at Woollen Gym) and the Kessing Pool (the outdoor 50-yard, 8-lane pool behind Woollen). Chapel Hill enacted water restrictions that closed pools that were well-fed.

I think other wells were dug to provide water for Kenan and other athletic fields.

The droughts in those days were acute.

I remember 3 years working out in a SHITTY pool at NCCU in August because all pools were closed in Chapel Hill. I already knew “separate, but equal” was bullshit……the difference between the UNC Indoor Pool (Bowman Gray) and the NCCU pool was stark. NCCU’s pool was shit…..it was worse than the Johnson Memorial Y pool in Charlotte or the Lakewood Y Pool in Durham…….and those were SHITTY pools.
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Yeah we had an inch in 25 minutes today
 
nycfan said:
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🎁 —> https://www.wsj.com/science/environ...9?st=6Zrg1E&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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“…
The massive size of the megaflash, which touched ground in five states in 2017, was revealed by a new analysis of satellite imagery from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The next largest lightning flash, recorded in the Great Plains in 2020, was 38 miles shorter. The average lightning strike is between 2 and 10 miles long.

NOAA’s Geostationary Lightning Mapper, the instrument that detected the flash, launched in 2016 and routinely records lightning flashes across all of North America. The data helps forecasters watch storms grow in real time.…”
 
Carolina Fever said:
One of my neighbors has a tree in their yard with leaves that have already started turning red.
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Oh we have a couple trees that have been shedding for over a week-full fall colors
I am no botanist-but I think they are "sweet gum ball trees"
In my totally ignorant opinion the last Heat wave Blast set it off
 
It ain’t the heat it’s the humidity. And that’s what will make North America uninhabitable in the not too far off future. There will be pockets left of habitable climate - though still sticky, as you people call it - in Western NC and East Tenn. Roan Mountain for one example. Also way up north in Maine… Canada, etc.

But as far as Atlanta, Columbia, Chapel Hill? Forget it. You’ll have to have gills to breathe. No need to even talk about New York, Chicago, Florida, Texas, California… or anything else in between
 
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