From: ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 29 Oct 2012, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandriva, in article   
   , TJ wrote:   
      
   >Moe Trin wrote:   
      
   >> I know it's already started raining, but how wet is the soil?  Have   
   >> you had that much rain in the previous 10-20 days?   
      
   >Not so much, maybe an inch altogether, and most of that would have   
   >been absorbed.   
      
   That's good - as long as it doesn't come down in buckets, you guys   
   should be OK.  In 1955, two consecutive hurricanes hit the areas near   
   NYC, and the resulting flood was rather devastating. I was near   
   Waterbury, CT, and Naguatuck river (normally less than 100 ft^3/sec)   
   was many orders of magnitude above normal flow (water surface something   
   like 25 feet above normal, which put it at least 6 feet above the   
   bridge road surfaces).   
      
   >Leaves are off the  trees, so that should mean fewer trees down.   
      
   That's also very important. About four years ago. I was late in getting   
   the trees trimmed here, and we had two fairly heavy storms about a   
   week apart, followed by a third with high winds, which uprooted a 35   
   foot tall mesquite tree, causing it to fall and crush a 20 foot tall   
   acacia, and there went about a third of the shade on the property.   
      
   >Looking more now like the heaviest rainfall will be in PA, the   
   >DelMarVa  peninsula, and western NY.   
      
   What I'm seeing for rainfall reports there really does look impressive,   
   but it seems much lighter North of New York City.   
      
   >> My sister is about 45 miles/72 km ESE of Adam, and around midnight   
   >> Eastern time (10/29/04:00 UTC) was reporting strong winds (est. 40   
   >> mph/18 m/s) out of the East and some rain.   I could see her   
   >> backups server this morning (14:00 UTC), but not now.   
      
   >Wind came up here a couple of hours ago, but still not too bad.   
      
   Looking at the airport weather sequences from the area, it looks as if   
   the winds peaked early Monday evening, and started shifting from the   
   Southeast - consistent with the storm center passing to the South.   
      
   Got a call through to my sister - she lost power around (local) noon   
   on Monday, and cable TV and phone service went down roughly the same   
   time - evidently a nearby problem.  Cell phones are still working.   
   Two of her sons live nearby, and have only seen lots of intermittent   
   power (power line slaps, or tree contacts) rather than outages.  She   
   doesn't have a rainfall total, but it seemed to be relatively light.   
      
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