Vrede too wrote: ↑Wed Sep 05, 2018 6:57 am
Little damp?
WU depiction of NWS/NEXRAD radar at 1:09 am EDT Wednesday, September 5, 2018, just after Tropical Storm Gordon came ashore on the Mississippi coast.
Yep. Our guests at the beach house didn't run, so we didn't get to spend the night on the island.
Interesting, local news had someone at Ocean Springs, pretty much where the eye made landfall. They had no rain prior to or in the hours immediately after landfall, while a hundred miles east, we got around 5 inches.
Missouri and Arkansas will likely get more damage than we did.
Also interesting in the dumb weatherman category was jim catatori (sp) informing his viewers how lucky Mississippi and Alabama are because, unlike the Florida panhandle, Mississippi and Alabama have a barrier island for protection.
I guess he forgot about all the times he has stayed on and broadcast from the barrier island - Santa Rosa Island. It's some 30 miles long and 6 to 10 feet above sea level, unlike the tiny sandbars off Mississippi and Alabama's Dauphin Island which floods at every high tide during the winter. But in fairness to Jim, the cameras were rolling and he had to speak words.
Trump: “We had the safest border in the history of our country - or at least recorded history. I guess maybe a thousand years ago it was even better.”