Chance of rain in Atlanta
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I would love a month without rain! I hate driving to Athens when it's pouring (I commute from Lawrenceville to UGA 5 days a week!). 316 slows down to a crawl and some damn fools don't turn their lights on. The dimness of the sky is also fucking with my moods. The rain is messing up my exercise routine, it makes getting around campus a bitch, and it is just generally annoying me with its redundancy. Now the rain is scheduled to sully my favorite holiday! *wants to scream obscenities at the sky*
Pellaz
Tigron of Immanion
I commute from Auburn GA to NE Atlanta and gave up on 316 a long time ago... For me, I-85 ends up being quicker.
The long-term plan is to replace the lights at Collins Hill and SR 20 with 'flyovers' like they did on Peachtree Industrial Blvd, but that's been put on hold.
The long-term plan is to replace the lights at Collins Hill and SR 20 with 'flyovers' like they did on Peachtree Industrial Blvd, but that's been put on hold.
Pellaz
Tigron of Immanion
Starting to clear off, yay.
BTW, Scott, I played some Vision Bleak on WREKage yesterday at your request.
BTW, Scott, I played some Vision Bleak on WREKage yesterday at your request.
James
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http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/federal-officials-september-s-186344.html
Federal officials: September's flood 'off the charts'
By Mary Lou Pickel
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
If a 500-year flood is a cup of coffee, what Georgia got in September was the whole pot, the U.S. Geological Survey said Wednesday.
The Sept. 21 flood in Georgia was worse than what's statistically projected to happen once every 100 years -- even worse than every 500 years. It was "extremely rare", "epic" and so "stunning", the U.S. Geological Survey says the flood has defied its attempts to define it.
"This flood was off the charts," said Brian McCallum, assistant director for the U.S. Geological Survey's Georgia Water Science Center in Atlanta. The Geological Survey does not quantify floods greater than a 500-year flood because the numbers begin to be too uncertain after that point, McCallum said.
According to the National Weather Service, some locations recorded up to 20 inches of rain from 8 p.m. Sept. 20 to 8 p.m. the following day. "Normally we get just over 50 inches of rain in one year," McCallum said of metro Atlanta. "We got almost half our annual rainfall in one day in some places."
Scientists called the flooding in Atlanta one of the worst floods in the country in the last 100 years. Flood waters washed away streamgages used to measure the water flow. In Douglas County, the Dog River flowed over the streamgage by 12 feet, roaring by at more than 448,000 gallons per second -- well beyond a 500-year flood, McCallum said.
All of that rain returned water levels in Lake Lanier and Allatoona Lake, to pre-drought levels. Lake Lanier rose by more than three feet after the flood and returned to full pool in October. Allatoona Lake rose to 13 feet over full pool.
"It takes a very large flood to end a very historic drought, and we certainly got that in September," McCallum said.
Federal officials: September's flood 'off the charts'
By Mary Lou Pickel
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
If a 500-year flood is a cup of coffee, what Georgia got in September was the whole pot, the U.S. Geological Survey said Wednesday.
The Sept. 21 flood in Georgia was worse than what's statistically projected to happen once every 100 years -- even worse than every 500 years. It was "extremely rare", "epic" and so "stunning", the U.S. Geological Survey says the flood has defied its attempts to define it.
"This flood was off the charts," said Brian McCallum, assistant director for the U.S. Geological Survey's Georgia Water Science Center in Atlanta. The Geological Survey does not quantify floods greater than a 500-year flood because the numbers begin to be too uncertain after that point, McCallum said.
According to the National Weather Service, some locations recorded up to 20 inches of rain from 8 p.m. Sept. 20 to 8 p.m. the following day. "Normally we get just over 50 inches of rain in one year," McCallum said of metro Atlanta. "We got almost half our annual rainfall in one day in some places."
Scientists called the flooding in Atlanta one of the worst floods in the country in the last 100 years. Flood waters washed away streamgages used to measure the water flow. In Douglas County, the Dog River flowed over the streamgage by 12 feet, roaring by at more than 448,000 gallons per second -- well beyond a 500-year flood, McCallum said.
All of that rain returned water levels in Lake Lanier and Allatoona Lake, to pre-drought levels. Lake Lanier rose by more than three feet after the flood and returned to full pool in October. Allatoona Lake rose to 13 feet over full pool.
"It takes a very large flood to end a very historic drought, and we certainly got that in September," McCallum said.
Pellaz
Tigron of Immanion
Considering the magnitude of the flooding, it's a credit to the people here that even more lives weren't lost.
dtmetalfan69
Southside Rocker
Great movie. Looks like they put an end to water problem in Atlanta. Just kidding. That is pretty amazing. I hope that everyone is alright. I thought Chicago had rain problems. That is just insane. Good luck to anyone that has to deal with that on a daily basis.
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