The Weather Thread

[superrific]

A few blocks away. Yeah, it’s a cringey name. At least it’s only a one-block street.

Yeah, that’s Charlotte.

I used to joke about Sid Meier creating a follow-up to his civilization series called Plantation. I mean, they wouldn't go there, would they? Almost. He made one called Colonization. Sort of jaw-dropping, really.

 

[Carolina Fever]

Another tornado warning for Alamance and Orange County.

 

[HandsonFire]

Looks like a nothing burger for Wake County. Might have rain here 5 minutes today.

 

[Carolina Fever]

Evacuations are underway at Camelot Village in Chapel Hill.

 

[SmilingJack]

Just came back home from the store at meadowmont and there was a foot and a half of water under the 54 bridge over Raleigh Rd and halfway up the hill a giant oak had fallen but we could navigate under it going left and then right but man what a mess it's going to be in the morning.

 

[Carolina Fever]

I think the forecast was a little off. This morning it said the heaviest precip would be along US 1 and justvwestvof there. Seems it ended up further west than forecasted.

 

[Carolina Fever]

Listening to the scanner from Orange County and there are multiple water rescues taking place.

 

[Carolina Fever]

Just heard a call of someone hanging on to a stop sign in flood waters at Fordham and Eastgate in Chapel Hill.

 

[Icky Mettle]

That’s insane. Yesterday’s forecast for Charlotte was that it would rain all day today and we would get some heavy rain. We didn’t get a drop today, and it was actually pretty nice out. And the temperature didn’t get above 80, which never happens here in July.

 

[Carolina Fever]

They got the person hangng on to the stop sign.

 

[DiehardHeelFan]

That’s insane. Yesterday’s forecast for Charlotte was that it would rain all day today and we would get some heavy rain. We didn’t get a drop today, and it was actually pretty nice out. And the temperature didn’t get above 80, which never happens here in July.

That was also the forecast early this morning. Scheduled all of my errands around the forecast to avoid it. Ended up sitting outside in the nice weather this afternoon that was supposed to be all rain

 

[SmilingJack]

This storm seemed an anomaly as usually the Eno or Haw are attractive to these but apparently this was stuck in the middle for about two hours and a shit ton of rain?
ETA: God help the folks in Texas too.

 

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[Zoo_View]

Evacuations are underway at Camelot Village in Chapel Hill.

That part of Chapel Hill has flooded in heavy rains for decades.

It’s part of the flood plain at the bottom of Stroud/Strowd Hill (Franklin Street at Estes).

The creek is Bolin Creek (Airport Road/MLK Boulevard drain into it; parts of Carrboro drain into it). If you’ve ever seen Umstead Drive and/or Park flood, that’s Bolin Creek.

Bolin Creek and Booker Creek (it is supposed to flow UNDER Eastgate Shopping Center) meet at about Estes and the By-Pass - call it the Rainbow Soccer Fields.

Just east of Chapel Hill, Morgan Creek (the creek that floods the soccer practice fields, the T&F facility, and Finley Golf Course), Bolin Creek, Booker Creek, and New Hope Creek all meet in that flooded swampy area where 15-501 Boulevard, Hwy 54, 751, and I-40 either intersect or get damn close to one another.

Nothing would be built at Camelot Village today.

 

[Zoo_View]

That’s Mallette and Franklin at where the old Fowler’s was (think Big Bertha and beer). Franklin Street goes downhill from both east and west to Mallette……Cameron Avenue is above/higher in elevation than Franklin…..decades and decades ago, a creek flowed north from their through the Northside neighborhood.

That section often floods. Floods have gone into the parking garage of the hotel next to the Dead Mule.

In the late ‘80’s we’d surf whitewater kayaks on West Franklin.

We humans build stuff where we shouldn’t and expect nature to accommodate us.

 

[Calheel]

Doesn’t bode well for my old haunts at Squid’s. Hope it doesn’t get hit too bad.

 

[Zoo_View]

Doesn’t bode well for my old haunts at Squid’s. Hope it doesn’t get hit too bad.

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.

 

[1moretimeagain]

I have a sister in Hillsborough, she said it was the heaviest rain she’s ever experienced.