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In reply to the discussion: I'm OK. Weakened to a TS before hitting us. Lots of rain and flooding, unfortunately. [View all]BumRushDaShow
(162,107 posts)48. Glad you rode it out okay!
Fortunately Delta came in as a Cat 2 vs Laura's Cat 4, so the in relative terms, the winds weren't as tornadic-like as seen from Laura, although some of the chasers I was watching speculate there may have been some tornados or funnels that briefly ripped through some areas (there was quite a bit of roof sheet metal stripped from the mobile homes and other buildings in the Lake Charles area). Because the NWS Lake Charles Doppler Radar was destroyed by Laura, there was a "radar hole", and that radar might have been able to confirm "radar-indicated" tornadoes if it had been operational and if there had been any.
The other fortunate thing was that Delta was not meandering/drifting along, cutoff from some steering mechanism, like Laura or Sally (it was moving at a moderate clip and is currently moving at about 16 mph), so that somewhat mitigates the potential for the type of extreme/excessive rainfall that the earlier storms produced. However Delta did produce upwards of (and possibly beyond) 9 ft surge to the east of the eye, notably in Vermilion County (Freshwater City).
It still breaks my heart that as people were still trying to clean up from Laura just 6 weeks ago, in comes a new storm right near where Laura blew through. In many cases, they were set back to square one and in others, Delta probably "completed the destruction job".
We'll be getting some rain from Delta's remnants up here in Philly sometime Sunday night, through Monday, and into Tuesday morning.
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I'm OK. Weakened to a TS before hitting us. Lots of rain and flooding, unfortunately. [View all]
Solly Mack
Oct 2020
OP
lol! The wind is scary but I truly hate flooding. Never feel clean for weeks after.
Solly Mack
Oct 2020
#21
Thanks, canetoad. Hate the thought of them injured. Too dark to check though.
Solly Mack
Oct 2020
#27
I've decided I'm done with hurricanes. I'll be sending my *weather card back on time from here out.
Solly Mack
Oct 2020
#33
Good to hear everyone's okay and, for once, Mother Nature decided to not be catastrophic.
Karadeniz
Oct 2020
#34
Got a nap in and then got busy. Sassy, fat raccoons. Left once the door was opened.
Solly Mack
Oct 2020
#71
Oh, yeah. Pets are spoiled rotten. The plan in my house is to save them first.
Solly Mack
Oct 2020
#81