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Nearly a month's worth of rain in ONE hour triggers travel nightmare in Washington DC

Amanda Schmidt
AccuWeather.com
Mon, 08 Jul 2019 14:49 UTC

Motorists stranded in flood waters in Washington, D.C

Commuters in the D.C., and Baltimore area faced an extremely difficult and dangerous drive back to work on Monday morning following the long holiday weekend as heavy downpours flooded local roadways.

Videos have surfaced on social media in which the raging floodwaters turned roads into rivers. One social media user captured a video while driving through high floodwaters in the Virginia Avenue Tunnel on Monday morning and said, "You're going to need a boat to pass underneath the Virginia Ave. underpass on I-66 in NW D.C."

Several water rescues were performed as high waters overflowed the roads. Local officials urged motorists to stay off the roads on Monday morning due to flash floods. Numerous roads in downtown Washington, D.C., as well as surrounding areas, were closed on Monday morning due to the heavy floodwater.

Pete Piringer, a spokesman for the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service, told local news station WTOP that "all our folks are deployed right now" at about 8:30 a.m. He said "the storm drains are overwhelmed."

Deep tropical moisture across the mid-Atlantic states has supported areas of slow-moving heavy rain over parts of Maryland and northern Virginia on Monday morning, said AccuWeather Meteorologist Max Vido.

"So far this [Monday] morning, the heaviest rain targeted portions of Montgomery, Frederick and Carroll County and prompted the National Weather Service to issues multiple flash flood warnings," Vido said.

Much of D.C., Arlington, Montgomery, Frederick, and Carroll counties received 2 to 4 inches of rain, with many areas picking up those amounts in only 1 or 2 hours. Radar estimates close to Frederick, Maryland, indicate rainfall totals over 4 inches. This heavy rainfall prompted street flooding, collapsed trees and water rescues.

In Arlington, Virginia, 3.3 inches of rain fell over the course of an hour at Reagan National Airport early Monday, according to AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Alex Sosnowski. That's nearly a month's worth of rain, as the normal monthly total is 3.7 inches.

Reader Comments

Winternights2 · 2019-07-09T07:22:35Z

These events are evidence of the fact that Mankind lives on a Planet.

Yes a "Planet", and it's called Earth, those school days must seem such along time ago, for many to have forgotten that fact.

There's worse to come, I'm a Earthwatcher and the writing has been on the wall for some time now.

Dazyks18 · 2019-07-09T08:04:22Z

Winternights2 Exactly dude, as grand solar minimums go this eddy GSM is shaping up to be a powerful one, with ice predicted to be present till 2470ad at the least, just another 18 months to go before the weather reaches full power and mankind's mass starvation starts to see us ALL dead, but I fear time maybe up for America sooner as thermals that being you warm weather from the Pacific are weakening fast, meaning you could all be starving by spring 2020

Potatoes and Tomatoes · 2019-07-09T08:22:47Z

Dazyks18 I've asked on here before if anyone has any info on the Deagle report from a few years back? Predictions of population per country globally...the USA if I recall looked like it will take a hammering. Whether by death or relocation, wasn't made clear.

Potatoes and Tomatoes · 2019-07-09T08:23:50Z

Potatoes and Tomatoes [Link]
Mis or dis info, I'm not sure?

Dazyks18 · 2019-07-09T20:24:44Z

Potatoes and Tomatoes Nah just gods honest truth dude, take it or dismiss it I don't care at least you've had courtesy of a forewarning unlike most.;-)

Dazyks18 · 2019-07-10T07:29:28Z

Potatoes and Tomatoes Oh I've seen that America is set to lose 90% of its population by 2030 it predicted as is the uk, the main causes were starvation/relocation, and the other was direct death by weather related injuries, wasn't it accompanied by a map showing new shore lines on countries affected by the eddy gsm

Potatoes and Tomatoes · 2019-07-10T07:34:35Z

Dazyks18 Yep, forewarned is forearmed...difficult to imagine as I look out onto my lush and green Devon garden this morning!

Dazyks18 · 2019-07-10T07:37:52Z

Potatoes and Tomatoes I know but uk crop losses of over 50% this summer do say otherwise

Potatoes and Tomatoes · 2019-07-10T07:55:54Z

Dazyks18 My other half is a yardsman at an agricultural yard...they are deadly quiet at the moment, much quieter than this time last year. We figure farmers are being cautious, not knowing if subsidies will be rolling in after October...greedy bastards took the money and bought fancy Landrovers instead of planting woodlands, now they have to pay top prices from timber yards in Germany for fencing stakes, grown by German farmers who diversified and had some forethought. Not to mention playing catch-up from last year's low feed yields. ..doesn't look good.

On the radio this morning was an article about the push for a 4 day week. They claim that more hours worked doesn't necessarily make for more productivity, that the opposite is true...little baby steps herding us into depression.

Dazyks18 · 2019-07-10T14:37:32Z

Potatoes and Tomatoes Yep with a possibility of martial law at the end of that rainbow

Potatoes and Tomatoes · 2019-07-09T07:44:18Z

At some point, quite soon I think, 'they' are going to have to explain how CO2 is responsible for this freakish weather. Of course, the narrative has shifted from the causes to the solutions, which are coming thick and fast in the guise of sustainable, renewable energies, so obviously now it's better to do something rather than nothing...don't dis the innovative engineers, at least they are doing something! No time to talk of the causes anymore, godammit, it's settled! I searched in Nature magazine for the Zharchova, Shepherd et al paper...funnily enough, it took a while to find it...kind of buried and unlike all the alarmist articles, didn't have a click-baity title.

Winternights2 · 2019-07-09T08:00:18Z

A causation isn't required.

Interactive cycling of energies and forces through time, are what models planet Earth.

Mankind somehow seems to forget to consider Earth's history, when making statements on today's weather and somehow comes to the conclusion that what is happening today, is somehow a consequence of man, wrong, there's much bigger forces at play.

Potatoes and Tomatoes · 2019-07-09T08:15:46Z

Winternights2 Causation has been the sticking point...you and I and many others know it's not what they say it is. I find it remarkable that so many can cite ancient and prehistoric histories, yet seem to ignore the effect of a cyclical climate history and how it's playing out today. The exposed ancient coastline around the UK, as in Doggerland or the habited and prosperous Greenland, yet in these modern times, 'tis the fault of humans...such arrogance!

ge0m0 · 2019-07-09T13:18:41Z

A causation isn't required.

Interactive cycling of energies and forces through time, are what models planet Earth.

Mankind somehow seems to forget to consider Earth's history, when making statements on today's weather and somehow comes to the conclusion that what is happening today, is somehow a consequence of man, wrong, there's much bigger forces at play.

Yup. How can a trip around a circle cause another one?

Winternights2 · 2019-07-09T15:22:30Z

ge0m0

Remember that saying, "what goes around comes around ".

Earth is round(ish), it orbits a round Sun.

Earth wobbles, and it's orbit around the Sun is irregular, hence patterns of weather through Earth's history, so yes, a "trip around a circle", can indeed result in another one.

2 things that might interest you, 1. Milankovitch Cycles and Glaciation, and secondly a song, The windmills of your mind, enjoy.

ge0m0 · 2019-07-09T16:16:15Z

Winternights2 Mine was a rhetorical question, or rather, a question for contemplation. Though I do appreciate your response (in spite of the corrective tone), it misses the point. One trip around the Sun, wobbly or not, does not cause the next one. One following another is not an effect, and one preceding another is not a cause.

Also, I live in Fairfax County, adjacent to Arlington County. The small creek in my backyard never topped its banks. This was a very localized event. Sorta fake news in that regard, like Anderson Cooper standing in a roadside ditch full of water to create the impression that flooding was much worse that it was. And flash floods are not at all uncommon in this area. We have relatively steep terrain north and west of DC and we get thunderstorms throughout the summer. in spite of the data that says it was a month of rain in a couple of hours, this one might have been worse than others, but also not as bad as some and really not a big deal at all.

Winternights2 · 2019-07-10T01:09:04Z

ge0m0

Firstly, apologies if my tone came across as "corrective", was not meant so.

A trip around the Sun is in my eyes an affect, the causation of that trip, was as a direct result of forces at work, gravity being one that is applied universally throughout the Solar system.

The "trip", could be defined as result of a objects interaction with another.

As this object passes through space, gravity from the second object attracts the first object towards it.

The "trip" in principle has now begun, the result is the balance of forces pushing the object out and pulling it in, so making a circular orbit.

I did say "a trip around a circle, can indeed result in another one", the term "result in", is in my opinion, a fair assumption. As the forces at work will continue to be played out.

ge0m0 · 2019-07-10T13:48:00Z

Winternights2 If you contemplate it deeply, you can trace back each so-called effect to a cause that has a cause that has a cause, and the " " is eventually seen as the Self. So tell me, who were you before your parents were born?

LindaMay · 2019-07-10T02:32:03Z

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Winternights2 · 2019-07-10T14:50:31Z

Ge0m0

I merely qualified my statement, that you had put into question.

I consider that all my statements stand and have merit.

I don't deal with hypothetical questions.

The forces in nature that result in our weather are equally governed by the forces that are exerted on planet Earth, and operate in our solar system and beyond.

People should understand that the weather isn't mystical, and driven my man presence on Earth.

Earth's currently undergoing a magnetic field flip, so is our Sun, impose upon that the effects of Milankovitch cycles and people should not expect the weather to be normal, far from it.

I'm a Earthwatcher, and I can tell you now, that people's eyes will be opened, 2019 will go down in the history books, and there's far far worse weather to come.

ge0m0 · 2019-07-10T16:44:11Z

Winternights2 I don't disagree with anything you have written about weather, earth, etc., with the exception being the part about causation. The Whole doesn't have a cause. This can be directly experienced in meditation, and rationally discerned as well. It's not the least bit hypothetical. Integrate that into your earth-watching and you will see so much more.

Winternights2 · 2019-07-11T00:22:26Z

Ge0m0

I always enjoy exchanging thoughts on life, I have read with interest your views but alas, we will have to agree to disagree with regards to "causation".

Regards

ge0m0 · 2019-07-11T12:31:47Z

Winternights2 Cool. I dig it. We don't all share the same direct experience. That's why it's nice to network these ideas.

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