Flo Almost Gone, After Trashing Va.

The center of the remnants of hurricane Florence moved through West Virginia yesterday but Virginia took the brunt of the storm's remaining fury. Another reminder, it's the northeastern quadrant of the counter-clockwise twisting storm that packs the biggest punch. And, first, the NC/VA central border region was terrorized with quick hitting tornadoes; 3 reports down Southside. The next and largest pop came on the western side of the capital city. 12 tornadoes touched down starting in southwestern  Chesterfield county and continuing in a northeast trend up into the Short Pump/ Glen Allen region of western Henrico County. Warning were issued for eastern Hanover and there was debris strewn about but no confirmed storms east of I95. Inches of rain fell with that storm batch.
The dangers continued into the late evening and more warnings were issued for Buckingham Co. after 11pm. No reports of storms touching down there but that strand of storms dumped almost 2 1/2 inches of rain on the tirehouse in a very short stretch right after midnight; and I was on the eastern edge of the storm, just grazed.

Flo is a storm we're gonna remember

Came rolling through in mid-September

Rain, wind and flooding, wooo

Then came tornadoes, too

And, hurricane season is through November:(

Today in the Old Dominion is a cloudy, tropically sultry day. The storm's has moved around us and on up the coast but it's huge radius is still dragging the humid, southern air our way. A cold-ish front is forecast to push Flo completely off the coast overnight leaving us with a clear but still warm late week, with a little lower humidity. Be nice to see a day of mostly sunshine. We still need to get through today and with heating, more storms are possible.
The entire Australia/Pacific plate boundary is shaking it up today. Multiple magnitude 5+ quakes along several thousand miles of the zone. Another big quake on Alaska's north slope with pre and after shocks. Greece is still shakier than I'm guessing folks living in old stone houses would like. Little shake in Hawaii but the recent raging eruption has mostly died; magma chamber below the world's largest pile of cooled lava, no doubt, reloading.
I caught a brief glimpse of the moon last night between rainstorms and roiling clouds but the clouds never cleared enough to spot Mars nearby. Maybe tonight; eventually, it will clear because, as often mentioned, there ain't nothing but change, Today on Earth.
A smaller, but still resistant group of speakers at the board of supervisor's meeting last night; the fight continues. We continue to point out just how many ways this is bad for this county. BAD, BAD, BAD!!