Will Mother Nature turn off the faucet for awhile?

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Anyone being affected by relentless rains and flooding in the Northeast US? I don't think I've seen so much rain in such a time span in my life, and where I am, it's not even close to being the hardest hit area.
I hope whoever's dealing with the onslaught is staying as dry and safe as possible. Many places are in seriously rough shape, some were just recovering from Irene's wrath.. and the precipitation may not be over. Good grief

The southwest has the opposite problem.

You're not kidding! My area had about 8 inches of rain just in the past few days. That's on top of Irene's rainfall and the wettest August in the area ever. You can't even turn on the news without seeing various neighborhoods underwater. Many schools were closed yesterday too. I like the rain and all, but lately it's a bit much. I feel very lucky to have been spared from most of the flooding. Just one mile down the road, and it's a whole other story.

Aya, good thing that in Quebec, even with our important hydrography, we seem to have "somewhat" less water related problems. We still do get floods though, I'm not kidding myself.

There have been worse in the past.

ruveyn

I love it when it rains. Dark skies, rain and lightning make me very happy. The sun can go off itself.

Be happy that it was rain and not snow.

ruveyn

my aunt saw 0.18 of an inch of rain for all of last year....if only you could drain all that rain to the southern midwest.

Jojo

we've had the opposite problem in Australia for over 10 years of drought, we were on water restrictions as our catchments were way down.
Last year we finally got some rain and our catchments were slowly going up and we're on stage 1 water restrictions now.
With the drought it got too the stage when I wished someone would get a high pressure hose and extringuish the sun a little bit.

Australia is a technologically advanced country. You guys should be able to go to Antarctica and snag a piece of iceberg and float it back home. Harvest icebergs. That will provide all the fresh water you need.

ruveyn

That would be a good idea but knowing our government they wouldn't do it. they would say it costs too much to do.

You seem to have forgotten the reason for posting this at this time.

We are having huge rainfall across NSW at the moment, to the extent that it is flooding in desert centres like Broken Hill. There is expected to be widespread flooding tomorrow when two dams near Sydney reach capacity and start overflowing. In 2006, the dam at Goulburn was literally bone dry, they had to ship water in from elsewhere, but it is also expected to overflow tomorrow. South of where I am, in Wollongong, the ground simply cannot absorb any more water after the recent rains and there's no need for a river system to cause a flood.

Was Goulburn where the labor government wanted the south east pipeline in 2006 I was disgusted at that time as I felt the people in the towns needed the water more.
We need more dams if only they would build one near gippsland as that seems to flood more often when we do get rain.

Actually Broken Hill is my Birth place.
I've been to Goulburn in 2001 its a nice town maybe more dams would solve the problem there should be something that could help everyone.

The direct result of the drought, and the Goulburn problem in particular, led to the building of a $10 billion water desalination plant at Kurnell, on Botany Bay (the only place Captain Cook set foot on mainland Australia). There are contractual issues with that now, since they have just had to cut production by 40% and may have to stop production altogether in a few months if things continue. The owners are not happy and the Liberals are scoring points off of it (and for those foreigner-types, the Liberals are our conservative party).

They built a desalination plant in victoria as well and there's been issues with it too.

100-140mm of rain all across Sydney today. That's around 4-5 inches for you people clinging to the ancient system.

I live four houses away from a bus stop and there was almost an inch of water just sitting on the grass on those lawns because the soil can't take any more water. And those lawns slope towards the road.