http://myescambia.com/home/news/situation-escambia-county-central-booking

When clay gets wet it becomes a lubricant and things just slide around – a form of geologic hydroplaning. The sand lets the water through and it heads back to the water table. The only danger is if there are winds involved, the pines will tip over readily as the sand becomes less compacted.

I am surprised that we didn’t lose power here, because the transformers tend to short out in the heavy rain.

ouch. mine tend to use stealth tactics when they’re in snuggle mode – first they’re lying on the coffee table, then they’re lying on the sofa at the other end, then they’re lying on the sofa next to me, then they’re lying partly on the sofa and partly on my lap, …

It looks like you got two feet of rain in the two events.

that sounds about right. I left an empty garbage can out in the backyard from my gardening activities over the weekend and it was full to the brim this morning.

looks like there’s more headed our way too

http://www.pnj.com/story/weather/2014/04/30/woods-yet-rain-way/8536907/

there’s quite a collection of photos of washed-out roads and damaged houses at that link. judging by those photos, the biblical injunction against building your house on sand ought really to be talking about building your house (or at least the roads) on red clay. my house on its foundation of sand is still standing. and the road didn’t wash out either.

They had bridges closed in a number of areas more as a precaution until they could inspect the approaches or the extremely poor visibility in the case of the Midbay Bridge.

It looks like you got two feet of rain in the two events.

I hate when people do that, especially that one.

I sure hope so. we’re going to need help. fema is recovering a bit from it’s “good job, brownie” days, but it’s still not as well-run and well-funded as it needs to be.

good point. I’ve had that happen a couple of times. if anybody out there has ever wondered whether cats utilize cato (claw-assisted takeoff) when spooked – I can tell you that the answer is yes they do.

I don’t know how many of our roads are still under water, but at least three of them in the city have collapsed and washed down their respective hillsides according to the photos and videos at the pnj website.

I’m fine, but I had to go out at about 10 minutes after midnight to check on the house next door because I thought it was struck by lightning, and I was checking for a possible fire. It has a metal roof. It was a tree, not the house that got hit, we discovered today.

Yeah, a foot of rain all along the Coast, and the Pensacola station lost some of its automated equipment including the rain gauge, so their new record is an estimate. The Mobile weather radar was out all night, so you couldn’t see the stuff out in the Gulf.

All of the local rivers are flooding, and roads are still under water. The Fraudster-in-chief has declared the counties on the Panhandle disaster areas, so a FEMA declaration may follow which will help with the clean-up as the legislature doesn’t put money into the disaster fund any more.

The sand just lets it drain away, but the golf courses and homes around them are screwed.

I have some new wounds from the cats because of close lightning strikes, so it isn’t the comfort you assume. 😉

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mob/?n=flashflood_04292014

wait, didn’t we just have one these a couple of years ago?

http://correntewire.com/the_rain_in_the_lane_stays_mainly_undrained

and then there were those 3 snow days to start the year off right…

if this going to be the new normal, we can cope. it’ll be tiresome and expensive, but survivable. the scary thought is that this might be just the transition to some really interesting times.