Perhaps the BEST B1G Forum anywhere, here at College Football Fan Site, CFB51!!!

Yeah, we're gonna have some serious flooding. Weather report shows ~1.5" of rain over a 5 hour period this afternoon. That's... A lot for here.

I'm up a bit in elevation so I'm not worried about any flooding, thankfully. And we have nowhere to go today, so just gonna hang out. Doesn't look like the wind will be enough here to be worth worrying about.

Biggest concern I have is power. I won't be shocked at all to have the power go out, but I don't want it to be a long enough outage that it impacts the fridge/freezer(s).

Find the nearest dry ice store. Saved me back in 2011 when we had no power for 7 days back up North after a Derecho blasted us.

How come most of these storms this year are turning North? Is this some anomaly?

The Big Guy is a Texan

Definitely wouldn't mind a mild tropical storm system developing in the gulf and cruising through Texas.

Annual averages for total precipitation by city

[th]Days[/th] [th]City[/th] [th]Inches[/th] [th]Milli­metres[/th]
116	Atlanta, Georgia	50.4	1281
86	Austin, Texas	36.3	921
121	Baltimore, Maryland	45.0	1143
118	Birmingham, Alabama	56.6	1438
128	Boston, Massachusetts	43.6	1107
166	Buffalo, New York	40.7	1033
112	Charlotte, North Carolina	43.6	1107
127	Chicago, Illinois	40.9	1038
136	Cincinnati, Ohio	45.3	1150
159	Cleveland, Ohio	41.0	1042
141	Columbus, Ohio	41.6	1056
82	Dallas, Texas	38.3	973
84	Denver, Colorado	15.4	390
136	Detroit, Michigan	34.3	872
47	Fresno, California	11.0	279
149	Grand Rapids, Michigan	39.4	1001
130	Hartford, Connecticut	47.1	1195
89	Honolulu, Hawaii	16.4	417
107	Houston, Texas	55.6	1413

128Indianapolis, Indiana43.61108120Jacksonville, Florida47.61209104Kansas City, Missouri39.399826Las Vegas, Nevada4.210634Los Angeles, California14.3362125Louisville, Kentucky48.31228111Memphis, Tennessee54.91395141Miami, Florida67.41712126Milwaukee, Wisconsin34.6878119Minneapolis, Minnesota31.6803123Nashville, Tennessee50.51283115New Orleans, Louisiana63.41609125New York, New York49.5125883Oklahoma City, Oklahoma36.4924130Orlando, Florida51.51307121Philadelphia, Pennsylvania44.1112033Phoenix, Arizona7.2183154Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania39.61006

[th]Days[/th] [th]City[/th] [th]Inches[/th] [th]Milli­metres[/th]
163	Portland, Oregon	43.7	1111
127	Providence, Rhode Island	47.5	1208
118	Raleigh, North Carolina	46.1	1170
119	Richmond, Virginia	45.5	1156
35	Riverside, California	9.4	239
168	Rochester, New York	35.1	891
61	Sacramento, California	19.2	488
92	Salt Lake City, Utah	15.5	394
81	San Antonio, Texas	32.4	822
40	San Diego, California	9.8	249
71	San Francisco, California	22.9	581
59	San Jose, California	13.5	342
156	Seattle, Washington	39.3	999
114	St. Louis, Missouri	41.7	1059
108	Tampa, Florida	49.5	1257
47	Tucson, Arizona	10.6	269
94	Tulsa, Oklahoma	41.0	1040
118	Virginia Beach, Virginia	49.2	1249
118	Washington, DC	41.8	1062

How come most of these storms this year are turning North? Is this some anomaly?

Gonna blow some recruits this way

I cited an article discussing the new use of low sulfur fuel in shipping now and its impact on climate.

Yeah, I find it an interesting thing. Clean up pollution from fuel, and inadvertently make (short term) temperatures worse.

I mentioned that Neal Stephenson novel, Termination Shock. Basically involved a rich Texas oilman in post global warming Houston shooting sulfur dioxide nto the stratosphere as a geoengineering project to reduce temps.