And yet people keep fleeing the midwest for the southeast and southwest…
Is Debby anywhere near Miami? I thought it was in the Gulf headed for the pan-handle.
I understand big storms like this cast a very wide net and Miami will get heavy rain but I thought Miami was mostly out of it.
Which makes one wonder…how bad is it for Miami which is on the very outskirts?
Low taxes trump killer storms it seems.
I explained in the post you’re responding to exactly how bad it … wasn’t. It’s now 6pm Sun. Hasn’t rained right here where I am since about 11am, and there are folks playing golf on the course I can see from here.
It was, as forecast, a non-event for greater Miami. So far. Any threat other than heavy rain is long gone.
Right now with the storm center maybe 100 miles offshore Tampa (and hence ~300 miles from Miami proper), one of the long rain bands full of active thunderstorms is set to sweep right up the urban/suburban coast over the next 3-8 hours. The leading edge of the rougher stuff is currently down south over the Keys, but the remainder of tonight might be very wet for much of the three-county Greater Miami area.
Here’s the radar, as of 5:50pm Eastern on Sunday. Nearly the entire state is getting rained on from this, and you can see that thunderstorm band that @LSLGuy referred to, just west/south of Miami at this point.
And that lovely 150-mile long sliver of white along the Atlantic coast that has been dry most of the day … but not for long. :eek:
The South Carolina coast is projected to be maybe pretty moist. (I’m inland, in a 2 to 3 inch area.)
I’d put it this way: the threats you’re familiar with seem far worse than the ones you’ve never thought about.
I did not move to FL to escape taxes. I moved to FL to escape cold. Which is a devil that’s very easy to know the details of. And is very reliably miserable 4 to 6 months of the year, every year.
Wow…for the first time seeing one of these I have no idea what I am looking at.
Purple blob on the SC coast, then nothing, then red blob on the other side also smacking Tennessee (it seems).
Red areas usually make people think danger, Will Robertson but as you see from the color key it actually represents fairly low amounts of rain.
Yeah, the color key on that map is odd until you look at the actual numbers, because they have red (which, as noted, is usually for “bad stuff”) at around 4" to 5" of rain – which is a lot, but there are areas that are going to get a whole lot more. This makes it initially deceptive to those of us who are used to looking at weather maps, where “red is the worst.”
So, the scale goes from red, to several beige shades, then a very light beige band, which looks almost white (poorly chosen for color, as it’s 9"-10"), then shades of purple for 10+ inches. So, what @Whack-a-Mole perceived as “nothing” is actually an area where 5" to 10" is projected.
Over 2 or 3 days? Meh. Not that significant for the area. We get that much a few times a year.
Good luck and be safe, looks like some nasty bands are headed your way. Hopefully for you, they’ll pass west, but I’m sure you’ll see some of the ugly.
Checking in. All good here. Wind got a little gusty and a light-to-moderate rain starting later last night and still going on. Been hearing small stuff hitting the roof, but nothing major so far. I’ll go out and do a walk-around when this current little band moves on.
I really feel for the people of Cedar Key and Perry.
Southern GA and the Carolinas are in for a rough couple of days.
Thanks! Just one tree down and it didn’t land on anything. I didn’t make it to work though, we’ve still got too much rain and wind for driving.
My son texted me yesterday that he was heading to work (prison) so I wouldn’t be hearing from him for a few days. He isn’t allowed to bring his phone onto prison property and will likely work a 72 hour shift.
Other than those of us on or working with the SERT, all state offices are closed today in most of the Big Bend region. They made that call yesterday.
Couple of friends are now reporting power loss, but they’re both east of me and farther out from town. City is reporting 5,200 customers without power, but a lot of them look very localized - one or two houses. I believe the crews are already out since the wind has dropped a lot in the last hour. State’s goal is restore power to all customers in the next 72 hours. 250k+ statewide.
As soon as I decided to stay home, conditions improved, so I did go on to work anyway. Looks like we got lucky again!
Had a wet Sunday. Mostly gentle rain for 12 hours. Deb went right around SWFL so no big deal here. But lots of cautions and prep on Friday. Had to take my work laptop home “Just in case.” But I don’t know how to log into our system from home anymore since IT has changed the procedure approximately 472 times since Covid ended. The flood prone areas in our County have flooded to various extents. But nothing really notable.
If Debby had been in the western Gulf instead of the eastern end it would have made landfall in TX; mebbe even have gone thru Dallas.
I’m currently listening to the scanner from North Central PA - they’re shitting themselves up there will all of the water rescues going on in a large, sparsely populated area. (41,000 people in 1100+ sq miles); rescuers can’t get to people; they’re pulling in resources from other counties, even calling helos.