| Slugbait - 10/11/2016 18:49
This is not an unusual storm for us. The jet stream throws typhoon remnants at us quite often. If we were later in winter with saturated soil and/or snow to melt, it would be slightly exciting. There will be some trees downed, and minor flooding.
The best thing will be the wave watching. When you get a pretty much straight line of wind from Japan to here it gets really impressive.
For those of those of us on the southern edge of the predicted cell this amount of water they are predicting this fast on extremely dry soil is scary. Not the kind of storm you would like to see for the first storm of the season.
If you get a storm like this after a few showers the soil will have some structure and some micro cracks and enough moisture to hold it together.
However when you get this much water this fast on soil that hasn't seen water for a while is nothing but talcum powder, the water will hit that soil like water hitting oil. |
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