Update: Rain Pounding Region
*Flood warnings in effect area wide until 5:30 a.m. Monday morning*
Midnight rain total update: 2.37" at Reagan National, 3.58" at Dulles
Through 11pm, Reagan National had already received 1.92" of rain, with 3.22" at Dulles. Another 1-2" of rain may fall before this storm winds down tomorrow.
ning strikes (key) from Weather Underground. Click here to zoom. Refresh page to update.
More storm notes:
*Dulles Airport has reported heavy rain for five straight hours
*It's not just rainy, but also windy. Winds have been sustained at 15-20 mph (from the east), with gusts of 30-40 mph in the metro area.
*Storm Warnings are out for the Chesapeake Bay until 4 a.m. Winds there may gust above 50 mph.
Flood Safety -- Turn around, don't drown. Never attempt to drive through a flooded roadway.
By Jason Samenow |
May 11, 2008; 11:32 PM ET
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Posted by: RobinD | May 11, 2008 11:46 PM
My top flood safety tip: Move to Death Valley.
(In all seriousness, though, nobody takes floods seriously enough. Think it's just a few inches of water? Think again. It only takes a fraction of an inch to render your tires completely useless.)
Posted by: mcleaNed | May 12, 2008 12:01 AM
I hope everyone out there in CWG reader-land is safe tonight. I just finished a 3 hour drive from Richmond to Alexandria, and am ready for this rain to be over. Stay dry!
Posted by: Jamie Jones, CapitalWeatherGang | May 12, 2008 12:43 AM
I've run out of towels and law school outlines. It's still coming in. At this point, I don't know how to save my stuff. Is this rain gonna stop anytime soon?
Posted by: ep | May 12, 2008 12:59 AM
EP: Join the club. Also dealing with flooding. This situation may not improve until tomorrow afternoon.
Posted by: Jason, Capital Weather Gang | May 12, 2008 1:03 AM
Oh, for a sudden 30 degree drop, what wouldn't I do....
Posted by: Jake in Reston | May 12, 2008 1:14 AM
EP: Put everything in plastic bags? Put it on top of shelves?
Emergency drive to Public Storage? (If the roads aren't impassible, which they probably are)
Posted by: mcleaNed | May 12, 2008 1:19 AM
Winds picked up in intensity in last 30 min. in Herndon.
This storm is starting to remind me of Isabelle only with more rain.
It's not so suddenly become a very dangerous storm.
Posted by: Ivan | May 12, 2008 1:31 AM
If you're awake, take a look at your barometer.
2am obs are in the 29.30 area.
Very powerful storm.
Posted by: Ivan | May 12, 2008 2:18 AM
More stuff than shelves. Really important papers that are not in the safe are now in the bathtub. I found this hilarious. It's leaking from all four walls into a basement studio apartment. I'm in Brookland, I really feel for the folks in lowlying areas.
Posted by: ep | May 12, 2008 2:52 AM
Since the newer entries don't have posting working this morning, I'll see if it works here in an older article...
West Springfield (Accotink Lake/Mixing Bowl) = Sunday afternoon to 6:30am storm sub-total = 3.80"
Posted by: Bikerjohn | May 12, 2008 10:02 AM
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Time to start watching out for shallow-rooted trees - with the soil sodden, it won't take much wind at all to start uprooting them.