Ironic Weather
Sep. 21st, 2009 08:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snugglemintI know I won't shut up... but....
Used to be that Georgia was in drought for years. Now we're in a flood warning.
I'd noticed the warning a couple of days ago when I looked at the weather but never thought of it.
Waking up this morning though, Atlanta is flooded. In some places there is more than 5 inches. We've got some "floating" cars. I don't think they're really floating, they're just stuck in water.
Schools have been closed and a good many homes flooded. (Actually, that's not a big enough picture, a whole TOWN is closed.)
The sucktastic thing is that we're flooding...and we have Thunderstorm warnings EVERY DAY for the next week. (Next monday is the first sunny icon we'll see.) The chance of rain drops down to about 30% on Wednesday, I think they said, but even that much is too much when you're already flooding.
Thankfully (and I say that shamefully and selfishly) it hasn't affected my area as of yet.
Nature is trying to make up for the drought in one lump sum. Not such a great idea.
It isn't just Georgia though. It's pretty much the whole south. We all had issues with drought, some more so than others, and we're all having issues with flooding now.
The good thing is that I like this sort of weather. (On a smaller scale.) The clouds filling the sky and blotting out the sun are the days that I live for, but they're so far and few between that they're a little foreboding.
Used to be that Georgia was in drought for years. Now we're in a flood warning.
I'd noticed the warning a couple of days ago when I looked at the weather but never thought of it.
Waking up this morning though, Atlanta is flooded. In some places there is more than 5 inches. We've got some "floating" cars. I don't think they're really floating, they're just stuck in water.
Schools have been closed and a good many homes flooded. (Actually, that's not a big enough picture, a whole TOWN is closed.)
The sucktastic thing is that we're flooding...and we have Thunderstorm warnings EVERY DAY for the next week. (Next monday is the first sunny icon we'll see.) The chance of rain drops down to about 30% on Wednesday, I think they said, but even that much is too much when you're already flooding.
Thankfully (and I say that shamefully and selfishly) it hasn't affected my area as of yet.
Nature is trying to make up for the drought in one lump sum. Not such a great idea.
It isn't just Georgia though. It's pretty much the whole south. We all had issues with drought, some more so than others, and we're all having issues with flooding now.
The good thing is that I like this sort of weather. (On a smaller scale.) The clouds filling the sky and blotting out the sun are the days that I live for, but they're so far and few between that they're a little foreboding.
