Wet Wednesday: Flooding Rain Swamps Northeast

[Purveyor]

Source: USA TODAY

Torrential overnight rain brought floods to portions of the Northeast and New England Wednesday, a day after heavy rain swamped the Mid-Atlantic and two days after Detroit saw historic floods.

Wednesday morning, floods stranded drivers in Long Island, where more than a foot of rain fell overnight. Central and eastern Long Island roads that were still open had bumper-to-bumper traffic Wednesday morning.

Islip, N.Y., picked up 13.26 inches of rain overnight, which is more than the city typically gets in an entire summer.

If verified, that amount would break the all-time New York State record for rainiest day in the state's history, the National Weather Service said.

Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2014/08/13/rain-floods-long-island-northeast-wednesday/13994951/

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[phantom power]

1. Holy crap, 13 inches

[hedgehog]

2. Two words of warning -

1. Stay out of the water - it's very easy to get swept off your feet and/or flood your car engine if the water is deeper than you realize.

2. Stay out of the water - most older cities have storm sewers that are connected to sanitary sewers. When the sewers back up, some of that water is raw sewage.

[calimary]

3. Wish we could get some of that extra wet - here in drought-ridden CA.

We'll gladly take a LOT of those floodwaters off your hands! Send it out HERE!!! PLEASE!!!!!

[PasadenaTrudy]

4. I know!

Can you imagine 13" of rain? Not all at once though

[calimary]

8. Aw Man... wouldn't that be great? Maybe spread over a month or so. Once a week. Divvy it up.

One can dream. And keep our fingers crossed that we don't have any more water main blow-outs...

[PasadenaTrudy]

9. We will....

My brother is a plumber and he's fixing them almost daily. We just don't hear about them all on the news. He says all this piping is about 100 yrs old and wearing out.

[Ford_Prefect]

5. Does anyone here have a neighbor named Noah?

...And yet Global Warming is still considered to be "Bad Science"?

[Plucketeer]

7. Maybe when some of the tea bags get soaked

it'll steep away their stupidity. One can hope anyways.

[Marrah_G]

6. A lot of flooding here in Providence

[NutmegYankee]

10. 5.3 inches in Montville, CT

We really did need it though. The grass was turning brown.