On living in "The Great Lakes" state
Michigan apparently has over 11000 lakes, and touches 4 of the 5 great lakes.
And you'd think that would mean knowing how to deal with water. But you'd be wrong.
I just spent over an hour driving to get lunch. That included all the detours around flooded streets.
It's been raining for something on the order of 36 hours. According to the weather reports I've found, it's something on the order of 5 inches of rain, total. Dearborn has numerous streets that are curb deep in water, and intersections that are bumper deep. The city is shutting down roads, and a lot of the traffic lights are malfunctioning.
We apparently average 2-4" of precipitation a month. So this storm is all the rain for the month, even though I think we were probably behind for the year.
And this isn't the first storm this year that's caused similar issues. It's not even the first storm in the few years I've lived here (reference melstav's car-turned-submarine that we spent my first summer here fixing).
Missouri, or at least the areas of it I've lived in, is much more hilly, and has a lot of rivers and lakes. It has the Mississippi River, and the Missouri River. And much bigger rain storms. About the only way to get flooding there is to have the rivers top the dams; the one time Rolla flooded the way Dearborn is flooding now, we'd had something like 8" of rain in an evening. St. Louis has a similar monthly rainfall to Detroit...the methods of dealing with the water are drastically different.
Baton Rouge averages 4-6 inches of rain a month; I was there during a storm that dropped us from 90 degrees to 30 degrees and dumped 6" of rain and 4 tornadoes in an afternoon. The roads are at sea level and yet they had only minimal flooding in that storm.
*shrugs*
Just seems strange to me that flooding is considered a normal occurrence here, when so many other places don't seem to think so.
And you'd think that would mean knowing how to deal with water. But you'd be wrong.
I just spent over an hour driving to get lunch. That included all the detours around flooded streets.
It's been raining for something on the order of 36 hours. According to the weather reports I've found, it's something on the order of 5 inches of rain, total. Dearborn has numerous streets that are curb deep in water, and intersections that are bumper deep. The city is shutting down roads, and a lot of the traffic lights are malfunctioning.
We apparently average 2-4" of precipitation a month. So this storm is all the rain for the month, even though I think we were probably behind for the year.
And this isn't the first storm this year that's caused similar issues. It's not even the first storm in the few years I've lived here (reference melstav's car-turned-submarine that we spent my first summer here fixing).
Missouri, or at least the areas of it I've lived in, is much more hilly, and has a lot of rivers and lakes. It has the Mississippi River, and the Missouri River. And much bigger rain storms. About the only way to get flooding there is to have the rivers top the dams; the one time Rolla flooded the way Dearborn is flooding now, we'd had something like 8" of rain in an evening. St. Louis has a similar monthly rainfall to Detroit...the methods of dealing with the water are drastically different.
Baton Rouge averages 4-6 inches of rain a month; I was there during a storm that dropped us from 90 degrees to 30 degrees and dumped 6" of rain and 4 tornadoes in an afternoon. The roads are at sea level and yet they had only minimal flooding in that storm.
*shrugs*
Just seems strange to me that flooding is considered a normal occurrence here, when so many other places don't seem to think so.