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Thread: Bombogenesis aka Bomb Cyclone
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11-16-2021, 10:28 AM #126
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11-16-2021, 10:33 AM #127
I don't think the wipers will help
https://twitter.com/BreakingSkagit/s...22947567026179
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11-16-2021, 10:41 AM #128
The City of Submerged Excitement
This is just the Fraser Valley section, but the whole Nooksack is flooded.
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11-16-2021, 11:09 AM #129
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11-16-2021, 11:27 AM #130
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11-16-2021, 12:16 PM #131“When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something. To do something." Rep. John Lewis
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Dunkin’ Donuts Worker Dances With Customer Who Has Autism
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11-16-2021, 12:27 PM #132
One of the coolest/scariest bridges in the USA. Whats crazy is that they spent the last month re painting and re structuring that guard rail.
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11-16-2021, 12:29 PM #133
If the fall doesn’t kill you the current will
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11-16-2021, 12:31 PM #134
A look at Mt. Vernon's temporary flood wall installation along the Skagit. Purchased in 2017 I'd say it's already paid for itself. The river has crested a foot below the prediction. Some water is getting through the slats but the flooding is minimal.
“When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something. To do something." Rep. John Lewis
Kindness is a bridge between all people
Dunkin’ Donuts Worker Dances With Customer Who Has Autism
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11-16-2021, 12:40 PM #135
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11-16-2021, 12:40 PM #136
Another question that needs answered is how big was the log in that driver’s pants???
Jesus.
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11-16-2021, 02:21 PM #137
Bellingham had it pretty easy compared to Everson/Nooksack/Sumas. Some BPD units went north to help with rescue efforts - I took this photo in front of my house this morning of a BPD response unit transporting some folks who were rescued.
We live in the east side of Nooksack on the edge of the Sumas River - most of our backyard was under water, but our house stayed high and dry. Some friends of mine on the other side of town weren't so lucky, their homes flooded Sunday night.
Sumas got absolutely destroyed - I would guess 90% of homes in the city were flooded, and those that weren't only survived because they are built way above grade.
And now the water continues to flow north into Canada. My brother lives southwest of Chilliwack, and they got a mandatory evacuation notice this morning.
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11-16-2021, 08:30 PM #138
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11-16-2021, 10:08 PM #139
A couple hosers survey the damage along the Coquihalla
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11-17-2021, 10:55 AM #140
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11-17-2021, 11:26 AM #141Registered User
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It's an absolute shit show in southern BC. The lower mainland is effectively cut off from the rest of the province, people are stuck in small towns with flood waters and landslides on either sides, towns are running out of food and water. The damage to infrastructure is the most concerning, it could take months or years to repair highways and bridges. And now we have reported deaths from cars being located in landslides. I'm not sure the severity of the situation is being properly described.
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11-17-2021, 11:53 AM #142
A guy I work with lives near the Canadian border. His house wasn't flooded, but apparently some of his neighbors were who hadn't been in last year's "100 year flood." Been a crazy year for sure. Big lowland snow event in February, record heat in June (108 at Sea-Tac!), and now this.
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11-17-2021, 11:58 AM #143
But man-made climate change is a myth, amirite?!
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11-17-2021, 12:13 PM #144
At what point do these "extremely rare, but still within normal climatic variation" events because a bit too common for anyone to honestly buy that line anymore? I think there are some who are so entrenched in their climate change denial that they will never accept it, but the rest of us are starting to see that these extreme events are becoming much more common to be pure happenstance.
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11-17-2021, 01:00 PM #145
I find the binary thinking infuriating. Is there a natural cyclical nature of the earth's climate? Yes. But that in no way means that human activity can't also affect the climate.
Back when we still called it global warming, I used to say "took 300 million years to form, and we're gonna burn all of it in 300? ...and that's not going to have an effect on the atmosphere?"
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11-17-2021, 02:18 PM #146
I’m starting to hear more and more rumbles among insurance underwriters about pricing this into premiums. This is typically an extremely conservative group that overwhelming voted for Trump. Sometimes you can see the cognitive dissonance in their thinking of climate change is a myth but these 100 year events are happening more than every 100 years.
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11-17-2021, 02:55 PM #147
I hope for the best for everybody that has been directly affected. We have friends that just moved to Bellingham that have now been displaced to a hotel while they figure out a new rental situation.
the pseudo floodplain manager in me is curious if these flooded areas were in the FIRM-mapped (or USACE mapped) 1% (100-year) or 0.2% ( 500-year) floodplain. any known failures to floodplain structures such as levees or floodwalls?
FWIW, i have worked on projects related to the long term response to a flood that was initially considered a 100-year event, but was later downgraded to much less severe event (like 5- or 20-year) both in terms of rainfall and stream flooding The reason for the flooding in built-out areas, like suburbs, was due to poor storm control design. sometimes it's bad sidewalk design. sometimes it is poor placement of street culverts that discharge into creeks, often a combo. i've also worked on projects that far exceeded the "worst case" flood model (i.e. higher than a 10,000 event in one circumstance) because of poor quality historic data. In that 10,000-yr circumstance, that specific flood was re-assigned to be the 100-yr (1%) flood. There are also some areas where the floodplain has not been defined in the flood insurance rate maps, such as large areas of San Jose, CA.
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11-17-2021, 03:31 PM #148
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11-17-2021, 09:47 PM #149
Policies only last a year. It’s not like they have to be very forward thinking. Also the premium collected per risk $ dropped really hard from ~2008 to 2020, so there wasn’t a whole lot an underwriter could do anyways. Now the market is getting more expensive so they have more pricing power.
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11-18-2021, 10:54 AM #150
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