Friday, November 15, 2019

Southeast Flooding

When nosotros left Longboat Key, Florida, yesterday morning, it was sunny in addition to lxxx degrees F; these pleasant weather persisted equally nosotros drove northward, equally far a southern Georgia.  An hr due south of Atlanta, however, clouds began to thicken in addition to intermittent showers cooled the air into the forties; yesteryear the fourth dimension nosotros reached that city, a steady pelting was falling in addition to dense fog shrouded the skyscrapers in addition to the landscape.

We spent the black only due north of Atlanta, inward Marietta, in addition to learned from the desk clerk that pelting had been falling for days.  Throughout the night, lightning flashed in addition to thunder rolled and, yesteryear morning, a flash overflowing advisory covered all of northwest Georgia; indeed, the streams were depository fiscal establishment sum along the Interstate all the agency to Chattanooga.  Once nosotros reached Tennessee, the pelting had stopped but all of the rivers westward to Nashville in addition to northward to Paducah were out of their banks in addition to shallow lakes covered many of the fields.

Flooding was specially severe at the mouths of the Cumberland in addition to Tennessee Rivers in addition to along the lower Ohio itself.  Recurrent heavy rains, combined alongside melting snowfall in addition to cold, compact soil, were responsible for the soggy landscape, setting the phase for both the jump waterfowl migration in addition to the verdant months ahead.

See also: Flood Season

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