Did our local flooding make the national news?

[Jeff]

Last week we had a storm come through that dumped 8" of rain in less than 8 hours.  Here in Harrison we were okay, but the roads just south of us were decimated.  Here is a video. Midland county lost 151 roads, Isabella didn't fare much better.

https://youtu.be/v1D6-P8RXcY

[barbender]

Wow! That's horrible, Jeff! We had one like that in 2013 I think it was, in the Duluth, MN area. It tore out a lot of roads and bridges too, city streets in Duluth as well. The Duluth Zoo even got flooded, I remember pictures circulating of a harbor seal out in the city streets, poor guy guy got washed right out of the zoo.

[Kbeitz]

The world sure is changing...
That's going to take some fixing...

[coxy]

looks like what we had in 06 and 07 2 one hundred years floods in less than a year dam I'm old 

[Peter Drouin]

Too bad for all the rain and ruing roads, But it will put a lot of people to work.

[Chuck White]

A lot of highway maintenance coming up, not to even mention repair/rebuild many buildings in the area!

[fishpharmer]

Water cut out the Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls and many other grandiose examples with a power and persistence nearly beyond comprehension.  Yet, seeing the damage and destruction water can cause, like in the video, always fascinates me as such a surprisingly immense powerful force. 

[Ox]

I didn't hear a thing about it.  But CNN was applauding Obama's choice of jeans to wear.  :

[Larry]

That picture looks how our drive looked after 15" of rain a month ago.



 

Half mile from our house Blue Springs road washed out.  Not wide but 30 foot deep.  That creek among others feeds 35,000 acre Beaver Lake which came up 6' overnight.  FLW was having a major bass tournament at the time....the bass won. :D

[BradMarks]

That is a lot of rain. Not a word out west, too many idiots making the news. Sorry for the locals affected.  Reverse question:  How many "easteners" saw the spillway breach of the Oroville dam in California this spring?. 50,000 people evacuated as a precaution.

[jtmccallum]

Isabella and Midland counties are a mess. My wife works with woman who lost everything to water damage in her trailer.  Whole park flooded out.  I drove home from Midland today along the Chippewa River. Some homes had truckloads of furniture piled outside but roads were intact.  Not surprised by lack of national coverage with the tropical storm in Gulf Coast.

[GRANITEstateMP]

Wow, the power of water is amazing!  Sorry to hear about that Jeff, 8in in 8hrs, that's rough.  Like Coxy said 06 / 07 or 07 / 08 were back to back 100year floods in the Northeast, seems like we got some stuff fixed then back to fixing the next week link in the line!  Our town usually doesn't have flood problems, those years were different!  At one point we were down to one or two ways into and out of town, we usually have 6 or 8!  I was helping the highway department, our main (state) road through town was shut down do to high water, traffic was all going to a dirt road...  We brought in A LOT of 1.5in crusher gravel to keep that road going with all the traffic!  Hope everybody gets squared away soon and then this will be a story in 5 or 10 years you tell your friends about.

[dgdrls]

Glad you are OK Jeff,

I suspect it was the same system that came on our work "radar" due to a dam over-topping and subsequent failure
to your east in North Huron Ontario

https://www.southwesternontario.ca/news-story/7389317-mvca-advise-public-of-potential-gorrie-dam-failure/

That is a lot of rain. Not a word out west, too many idiots making the news. Sorry for the locals affected.  Reverse question:  How many "easteners" saw the spillway breach of the Oroville dam in California this spring?. 50,000 people evacuated as a precaution.

Yes,  full Board of Consultants involved,  repairs already in the 100's of millions,  the actions Items and lessons learned will ripple through the industry for years. 

D

[Jeff]

This was about 3 miles from where my dad was born and raised in Midland county.  There was no creek or ditches here before, the water just turned and took the path of least resistance to the Chippewa river.

[ronwood]

Jeff,

Are the highways coming from the south ok. If I can make it to the pig roast which is looking possible I would be coming up though Illinois or Indiana from Mo?

Ron

[Jeff]

No problem with any highways or roads getting here.

[coxy]

I haven't seen it but herd Utica NY got hammered yesterday

[loggah]

We had a lots of roads washed out around here yesterday !!! mostly in the western central area of N.H. ,im sure parts of Vermont got hit as well. Don

[Bruno of NH]

Don
It hit a lot of areas hard from Lebanon north
Hartford and Thetford Vt
We lucked out in my area

[maple flats]

I haven't seen it but herd Utica NY got hammered yesterday

I saw it in the national news. Today I was there, little damage showing, but at least in one place just south of Clinton, NY just outside of Utica, a road washed out. Several big holes, but nothing like what Jeff showed in his first video.
The area only had 3.75" on Saturday around Utica, a few miles away it was 2" or less.

[Ianab]

Locally we count 1" an hour as "heavy" rain. Not unusual, but if it keeps up for 4+ hours things start getting a bit damp. According to the online gauges the National Park visitors centre up on the side of the Mt got 208mm (bit over 8") on the 1st July, but here at home it was more like 26mm (about 1"). That's about 7 miles away. The local rivers are fairly steep flowing, with small catchment areas, so they cope with that sort of downpour. Further East the streams turn Nth and South towards Waitara and Patea and are starting to become decent rivers and bigger catchment areas. Waitara has major flood protection banks, and most of Patea was wisely built further up the hills, away from the high water marks.

Annual rainfall here in town is around 80" year. Up in the National Park it's more like 200".

National record for rain goes to a stop near Hokitika on the West Coast of the South Island. In 1998 they got 654" of rain.