After a humid, drizzly weekend watching the devastation going on in North Carolina, Flo's remnants have arrived in Virginia. The storm center is down in the Cumberland gap area but it's always the northeast quadrant that gets the worst and that's where we are. Current radar is showing nasty stuff to our south and it's streaming our way. I was thinking the heavy rain would stay along the Blue Ridge and in the Valley but seems to not be the case. Sadly, much of what is falling in Southside Va. today will be flowing into NC over the next couple, compounding the problem there.
While I do feel bad for the folks being rescued in Carolina, what were they thinking? How many warnings do you need? "I've never seen it like this before"...Duh! This is exactly what was forecast days ago and you were warned to get out. Ignorance and DaNile combine to make trouble and then cost us all millions and risk first responder lives in saving their dumb asses. Wonder how many of the people rescued don't "believe" in global warming? Or worse, think it's some retribution from their "loving" god or part of "god's plan". As stated many times, Earth doesn't care what we "believe", it's just a planet responding to heat in the atmosphere and hydrosphere with normal, chaotic consistency. We know there are similar storms on every planet we can study, wild variations on the same theme. Why are we surprised?
Or by big quakes; and there have been a lot of shakes around the Pacific from north of New Zealand (6.5 - Fiji) all along the western rim, into a shaky Alaska and down through the Americas, but less shaky on the eastern side. 50ish so far today, about average.
The moon was first quarter last night at 7:15 but sure wasn't visible here, nor will it be tonight. Maybe late tomorrow once Flo is no mo' and certainly by Wednesday when the thickening gibbous moon will sit right above Mars. Until then, stay dry and be careful out there, Today on Earth.
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