It's really coming down in Alexandria.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

I just got a flash flood warning. Now they've repeated it.

I'm taking a few days off. I went out shopping on Tuesday afternoon, as a medical appointment I had had got canceled. On the way back, as I was walking from the bus stop and nearing home, I saw piles of furniture out by the sidewalk in a neighborhood where I though flooding would not be an issue. It was that neighborhood's night before trash pickup. I stopped to talk to a resident putting out stuff.

Alexandria had received a lot of rain a few days earlier, on the previous weekend. He said it was the fourth time his basement had been flooded. There's an underground stream that goes through the neighborhood. The rainwater passages to it are becoming clogged, so they don't drain the way they ought to.

His neighborhood will be taking it again this morning.

[bottomofthehill]

1. Belleview, Del Ray or over by the Huntington Metro.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. Between Rosemont and Del Ray.

That whole area between GW Middle School and Commonwealth will automatically get flooded out. What surprised me on Tuesday was that houses not in that sector were getting flooded too.

I'm going to turn on the local TV news broadcasts in a few minutes. I am certain that they have crews on the scene.

I can't say about Huntington or Belleview. I don't know what rainfall was like there this morning. We could get 2 inches, and they get a half-inch. It's local.

[bottomofthehill]

3. News Chanel 8 is your friend on days like today

One of the benefits of cable if you still have it. We got crushed when Hurricane Isabelle came through a few years back.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. It comes in as a freebie here. Channel 7.4, I think. I will check. Thanks. NT

[nitpicker]

5. Or one could get a FM/AM/weather channel radio

And get buzzed by all the alarms.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

7. I used to have a couple of Uniden BC278 scanners with weather band.

My brother cleaned house and gave them to his friends. Yes, really.

I now have an Eton SolarlinkFR370 with an L. L. Bean label on it. It has about 13 different kinds of alarms (dam break, surf's up, flood warning, flood watch, aliens, asteroids, etc.). Programming that thing -- wow.

Every now and then I post a thread about Mark Trail and his touting weather band radios. I'll find it.

Here you go:

Mon Mar 29, 2021: What in the world is going on with Mark Trail?



Source: Mark Trail champions the NOAA Weather Radio, at NOAA Weather Radio All-Hazards