[ARCHIVED THREAD] - rain. (Page 1 of 4)
Posted: 9/8/2014 5:09:55 AM EDT
gettin hammered here in chandler right now. That's all. 
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35 Av south bound is a river the farther you get. Glendale was OK Bethany was a river Camelback was a lake.
S belt started slipping and brakes went out. Car overheated, I am dead in the water literally. Boss is pissed he still wants to make delivery's today and only a few have made it in. F him I will try again at 8am or so. Schlup my ass in to drive by a bunch of closed businesses. 
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Best idea I've heard yet. Second best would be all this rain will have washed out a lot of nice small geodes and minerals.
If your a rock hound You should get out there. Lots of those seldom running washes are doing it now. Check just below those eroding banks. Lots of semi precious stones and rocks will be uncovered by this storm. Third rainiest day in state history makes for a once in a lifetime chance to clean up. |
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Quoted: Chandler and Kyrene area here, the wife is worried about the house flooding, the yard has an inch of water in places. We should be OK but lots of folks without flood insurance are getting hammered by this flooding. Wife thought I was stupid when house shopping I liked that our house was up high off ground level. Whos laughing now? lol water wil have to go up another 5-6 inches before getting in my house and it can drain out the back gate if it gets up another 2. |
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Woke me up at around 3 as Scottsdale was getting hammered. AC unit fell through the roof of our office in Tempe. Giant cactus at our Scottsdale location that's been listing steadily for months finally fell over and barely missed totaling a van that parked near it.
Found this on Reddit and it made me laugh. 
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Woke me up at around 3 as Scottsdale was getting hammered. AC unit fell through the roof of our office in Tempe. Giant cactus at our Scottsdale location that's been listing steadily for months finally fell over and barely missed totaling a van that parked near it. Found this on Reddit and it made me laugh. http://i.imgur.com/Rc8orBd.jpg There was a large saguaro down in the middle of greenway/Hayden loop. It had cones but it looked like someone had already ran it over. |
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There was a large saguaro down in the middle of greenway/Hayden loop. It had cones but it looked like someone had already ran it over. Quoted:
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Woke me up at around 3 as Scottsdale was getting hammered. AC unit fell through the roof of our office in Tempe. Giant cactus at our Scottsdale location that's been listing steadily for months finally fell over and barely missed totaling a van that parked near it. Found this on Reddit and it made me laugh. http://i.imgur.com/Rc8orBd.jpg There was a large saguaro down in the middle of greenway/Hayden loop. It had cones but it looked like someone had already ran it over. The one here must have been 15 or 20 feet tall with half a dozen arms. It was standing when I got in at 8 am and on the ground by 1030. Sad. It was a big mother... |
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In the early 80's we had 3 "100-year" floods, quite close together.
Took out the river crossings. The TRAIN was actually moving people back and forth across the Salt. But that was 5-7 days of 1" rains, IIRC. No Tempe Town Swamp, freeway stopped at Litchfield Park, and 7th Ave & 7th St were reversible. East side/West side traffic actually had helicopters. Now, you kids get off my lawn! 
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It rained 3" and SHTF? The soil straight up won't absorb that amount of water in a short amount of time, the drainage system isn't built to handle that much water that quickly. Considering annual rainfall in inches can be counted on a hand with missing fingers in the Mojave, this level of flooding isn't surprising. |
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In 1993, it rained in Tucson just about every day for a month at the beginning of the year. The dry river beds were running 10+ feet deep and the bridges were closed as they were being undercut. I had to find different ways to get to work and once at work they wouldn't let me leave as others couldn't get to work for a day.
http://www.azgs.az.gov/Hazards_ocr/Floods%20_%20Debris%20Flows/floods%201993.pdf In 1983 there was flooding so bad that I believe 1,000 houses were destroyed in one area. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Storm_Octave_(1983) |
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The soil straight up won't absorb that amount of water in a short amount of time, the drainage system isn't built to handle that much water that quickly. Considering annual rainfall in inches can be counted on a hand with missing fingers in the Mojave, this level of flooding isn't surprising. Quoted:
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It rained 3" and SHTF? The soil straight up won't absorb that amount of water in a short amount of time, the drainage system isn't built to handle that much water that quickly. Considering annual rainfall in inches can be counted on a hand with missing fingers in the Mojave, this level of flooding isn't surprising. Exactly. Some places got 4-5 inches in ~4hours. |