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Rains not seen for 200 YEARS: Two dead, 22million on flood watch and New Jersey homes already consumed by high tides in bombardment of weekend storms dubbed a 'slow-motion disaster'
National Weather Service spokesman called the storms hitting the East Coast a 'once-in-200-years rainfall event'
Around 22million Americans are on 'flood watch' on the East Coast
Parts of North and South Carolina have had up to 12 inches of rain
Two deaths in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and Spartanburg, South Carolina have been linked to the storms
One woman was hit by a falling tree while another drowned in her car
Flood watches and warnings also are in effect in Delaware and parts of New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia
The search continues for 33 crew - 28 Americans and five Poles - on board a ship that went missing near the Bahamas during Hurricane Joaquin
Joaquin remains a Category 3 hurricane and is speeding up as it moves away from the Bahamas

Saeideeh Sharifian, 72, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, was killed when the storms brought down a 60-foot pine tree on to the Toyota Corolla she was a passenger in on Interstate 95, north of Godwin.
Sylvia Arteaga, 56, drowned when her car flooded in standing water on a road in Spartanburg, South Carolina. County coroner Rusty Clevenger told the Spartanburg Herald-Journal that she was likely unable to escape the car when it became submerged.
In New Jersey, high-tide cycles caused at least one home to collapse just north of North Wild Wood at about midnight on Saturday, according to NJ.com.
Nearby residents posted on social media that the 2.5-story house was lifted up off its foundation and floated into an inlet.
Down south in Virginia, Bubba's Seafood restaurant in Virginia Beach was so overwhelmed with water that dolphins were swimming at its doors.
NWS meteorologist Doug Anderson told Daily Mail Online that Hurricane Joaquin is 'slow moving' and he is 'expecting it to last through Monday night'.
Once the rain ends, the threat of flooding will persist because the ground is too saturated to absorb any more water - so it will run off slopes and pool on lower ground.
The Carolinas are set to get the worst of it, with potential landslides in the mountains. In fact, South Carolina could get more rain in three days than it normally gets during the entire fall.
Official advisories in Charleston, South Carolina, told residents to stay indoors and out of knee-deep water.
'I'm a good citizen and I'm going to obey,' Shirley Jones told CNN. 'I'm going to hole up in my apartment and clean out my dresser.'
The National Weather Service told NBC that South Carolina is facing a 'once-in-200-years rainfall event'.












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[lovuian]

1. Stay safe everyone

that's a lot of water

[Blue_In_AK]

2. My husband used to be chief engineer

on the ship that's missing. Sad, those Mariners are most likely all dead.

[malaise]

4. It's horrible

I can't imagine their last moments - hope at least one survived but that appears unlikely now

[LiberalArkie]

3. Every year we have a once in 100 year, now it is once every 200 years. God, before long we

will be having once every 1000 year event.

[BelgianMadCow]

7. Yes

You know the quote "The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." (A.A. Bartlett)?

I think the same goes for non-linear system behaviour. I happen to think the earth entered positive feedback loops (methane hydrates, permafrost) several years ago.

[riversedge]

5. more....

A woman wades waist-deep in a flooded street in Charleston, South Carolina. The National Weather Service says the risk of flooding will continue through Monday morning

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[riversedge]

6. ship that went missing...huge..

The El Faro, a cargo ship carrying 33 crew, went missing off the Bahamas in heavy seas whipped up by Hurricane Joaquin was unknown on Friday as the storm battered the island chain for a second day

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