Hi Ike

[da]

So I heard we had rain warnings this weekend for 5-10cm/2-3.9" total. The first storm is due today; the second, tomorrow, the remnants of hurricane Ike.

That seems like a lot of weather activity, but Google Maps makes it seem more immediate with their Fall Hurricanes map.



Um, hello.






So, if we're washed away, it's been great knowing you.

(I kid, of course; we don't even have a Warning for our county. Um, yet. Which is good, because melted_snowball is supposed to be on a plane in seven hours.)

(Duck 'n cover, everyone on my f'list in the midwest!)


In 30 minutes I'm supposed to go stand on a bridge in Victoria Park and get photographed. I wonder if the rain will hit before, or after?

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[da-lj.livejournal.com]

The rain hit after the photos were taken for USians Abroad.

Fingers crossed d. can successfully take off this afternoon...

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

looks pretty good: almost no flights are delayed. Phew...

(would be good if the kid that's screaming would shut up...)

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Sedatives in his gazpacho?..

[ng-nighthawk.livejournal.com]

This is reminding me of the Colorado weather preparedness lesson I gave Z-man (age 3):

Tornado: go into the basement
Flash flood: find high ground
Lightning: Find shelter
Tsunami: Just sit down and find someone/thing to hug. It will all be over soon.

A hurricane (albeit mightily reduced in strength) in Toronto is not quite as odd a tsunami hitting Denver, but it still feels a bit bizarre.

[pyesetz]

we don't even have a Warning for our county. Um, yet.

This oversight has been corrected.  EnviroCanada is now predicting 50-100 mm for today and *another* 50-100 mm for tomorrow, with a lull in between.  I think I'd better go out and pick tomatoes tomorrow before they split from excessive moisture.

It's odd that the word "flooding" did not appear in a warning that predicts 8 inches of water over two days.