Comments on: Tropical Storm Ida – Day 6

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:51:04 +0000

It looks like it will come ashore about 75 miles West of you, so you should get some wind. The rain is likely to continue until midday tomorrow.

Yeah, they sure don’t “waste” any money on storm water run-off around here.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:40:30 +0000

we’ve been getting fairly light rain here, all things considered, which is good because some of the roads i normally drive flood rapidly with deep pools and ‘rivers’, and we’re all still out stocking up on last-minute hurricane supplies.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:01:01 +0000

In reply to Steve Bates.

If Ida hadn’t sped up it would never have made it to the northern coast. There is a high pressure ridge that arches from Mexico to the Florida/Georgia border on the Atlantic that has been pushing South. Ida will be riding that ridge East. The faster arrival means the trip will be on land, instead of out in the Gulf.

We can absorb almost unlimited rain. It just runs through the sand down to the clay layer, and heads out to the Gulf. All you have to do is be careful on the roads because they don’t drain worth a damn. They have been sliding into each other since the first rains this morning.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:10:28 +0000

Houstonians learned in T.S. Allison that the amount of rain a T.S. can deliver can spell utter disaster as surely as high winds. You already know that from Georges, among other storms. Here's hoping for the best tomorrow. .-= last blog ..Dear President Obama: =-.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:22:11 +0000

Well, it got bigger overnight, but it also acknowledged the reality of the wind shear, dry air, and cooler water. It moved faster than anticipated, so the steering conditions that would have pushed it back to the East towards me haven’t had a chance to effect it.

It currently looks like it might be another Georges, paralleling the northern coast inland and sucking in rain for days. We don’t need any more rain. We maxed out in September and have been adding to the record every month since.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:47:52 +0000

Bryan, if Ida is “[545 km] South-Southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River,” is it also 673 km South of your mouth? 😕

I know it’s not a very big storm, and that you always prepare well, but please keep safe.