Here comes Beryl

[lman]

We had 5.3 inches in Marshall county Indiana. Fortunately it was getting dry before the hurricane hit and the ground soaked it up but the river bordering my place has escaped its banks.

 

[ponytug]

Is anybody near Toronto Canada? My brother lives there and he's claiming that he got 8 inches in 4 hours. I'm struggling to believe this since I had 6 1/2 inches in 24 hours, and I'm a lot closer to where Beryl hit the US then he is way up in Canada.

Hmm, I wonder if somebody's leg is being pulled;

Total Precipitation - Daily data for Toronto

Chart and data: Total Precipitation - Daily data (2 weeks) for Toronto for Toronto, Ontario, Canada

toronto.weatherstats.ca

Lists 45mm (1.75") on July 10th. I could see double that for some local downpour, but 4X seems abnormally different.
Wunderground showed even less.

All the best,

Peter

 

[Oaktree]

LOTS of road closures due to washouts here in northern New England. Central Vt. really took it on the chin again...a lot of steep mountainsides and narrow valleys=recipe for disaster. Both Rt. 2 and 302 (primary E-W across the northern part of the state) closed due to numerous washouts. A lot of those roads had just been repaired after another deluge one year (to the day) ago. N.H. fared a little better, but highway crews will have their hands full for the rest of the summer.

Hurricane Beryl remnants wash away Vermont apartment building, wipe out roads in New Hampshire

New England didn't receive a direct blow from Hurricane Beryl, but its remnants caused flooding and serious damage in the northern part of the region.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[319Quahog]

In NH as well. We got slammed, but luckily no property damage at my place.

I was able to go south from where I live, but it's doubtful I'll be able to go north easily for another couple of days until more side roads are repaired.

The pictures being posted by the various area FDs are nuts.

I luckily live on what I think is the only town owned paved road here. It's 'thinner', but passable in both directions.

SR-135 is either gone or wrecked and the irony was NH DOT was replacing/repairing all the culverts in Lancaster in preparation for repaving.

The town crews are earning their keep, that's for sure.

Some pics here. Some I hadn't seen yet.

Photos show storm damage in northern New Hampshire from Hurricane Beryl remnants

Extensive damage was reported in several northern New Hampshire towns after remnants of Beryl hit the northeast.

www.wmur.com

 

[319Quahog]

Rain totals from yesterday.

This is on top of almost daily heat/humidity induced T-storms. Already saturated ground and already flooding culverts finally got too much rain to keep going.

 

[BleedingOrange]

Here,s a report on how it effected the Montreal area.

MSN

 

[EddieWalker]

Hmm, I wonder if somebody's leg is being pulled;

Total Precipitation - Daily data for Toronto

Chart and data: Total Precipitation - Daily data (2 weeks) for Toronto for Toronto, Ontario, Canada

toronto.weatherstats.ca

Lists 45mm (1.75") on July 10th. I could see double that for some local downpour, but 4X seems abnormally different.
Wunderground showed even less.

All the best,

Peter

Thank you for this. He has a history of saying things that haven't proven to be accurate. Saying that he received 8 inches of rain there in Toronto, after I got 6 1/2 inches here in Texas, just seemed ridiculous.

 

[MAX-24-Dean]

Central Point Energy video on the outage.

Expect to have around 80% of customers online by Sunday afternoon.

 

[Rustyiron]

On the natural gas/generator topic, is gas service subject to weather related problems and widespread electrical issues?
Here, a very long way away from the lone star state (maine) we had a 4 day outage from a kinda freak 18" very wet snow the first week of this past April. Being the most wooded state in America (they say), despite massive trimming efforts the past 5 years or so we loose power quite often. There's limited NG in some of the cities but that's it. Too much granite to be financially practical. I selected a 20kw diesel unit that uses .5 gallon/hour and have a 200g tank as the generator base, then there's a couple of 275's (gallon) always close to filled for heating and tractors.
Glad to hear that pretty much everyone here got by in pretty good shape.
Consider your choice of fuel carefully considering it's availability in emergency conditions is what I'll trying to say.

 

[ponytug]

On the natural gas/generator topic, ...
Consider your choice of fuel carefully considering its availability in emergency conditions is what I'll trying to say.

X10. I know folks who blew through their entire (large) tank of propane three days into what turned out to be a two week outage, who then weren't refilled for a month.

Sometimes, conserving, and breaking out the candles isn't such a bad idea either...

All the best, Peter