Storms Across The Southeast

[santaman2000]

Heavy thunderstorms have pushed across the southeast; starting in Louisiana and moving east over the last couple of days. Here in the western Florida panhandle we received almost 2 feet of rainfall in during the heaviest two hours last night and it's still raining. Tornadoes hit some areas farther west of us. There has been one confirmed drowning as a car was submerged in the parking lot of a supermarket in Escambia County yesterday. The storm's main body is now moving towards the east coast.

Here are some photos from a Pensacola page on FB:


Scenic Bluff Highway

The Interstate (motorway) 10 bridge over Escambia Bay

Scenic US Highway 98

Coffee and lightning over the Gulf Of Mexico

Palafox Street in Pensacola
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Random pic on 9th Avenue
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[santaman2000]

Johnson Avenue (Pensacola)

Nine Mile Road
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[mrcharly]

Two of those pictures of collapsed roads have cars in the collapse; did the drivers go off the road, not seeing the collapsed section or where they parked there?

 

[santaman2000]

They're not parked there. I don't know if they went over the edge or were washed off during the collapse. All out roads are on sand so they wash out easily and quickly. It's the substrate we have to contend with.

Also, if they tried to drive through while the water was still flowing, they wouldn't have seen that the roadway underneath was washed out. That's why you should always cross "shallow" floodwaters very, very carefully, if at all.

 

[dave53]

thanks for the pics and the story horrific weather over the glad your safe and well regards dave

 

[Tony]

Heck, thats serious stuff, glad you're ok and I hope the rest of you over there are...

 

[British Red]

Stay safe - puts our rain in perspective!

 

[Macaroon]

Ye Gods!!! 24" of rain in two hours? I didn't know such a torrent was possible.........That's mind boggling! Stay safe

 

[santaman2000]

Ye Gods!!! 24" of rain in two hours? I didn't know such a torrent was possible.........That's mind boggling! Stay safe

I'm not sure how accurate those reports are. They're official reports as such but many of the gauging stations are down. The most accurate I've seen seems to be just over 26" in Pensacola (about 40 miles west) and just over 19" here in Crestview over the last 24 hours (MOST of that during the heaviest 2 hour period last night)

 

[Macaroon]

I'm not sure how accurate those reports are. They're official reports as such but many of the gauging stations are down. The most accurate I've seen seems to be just over 26" in Pensacola (about 40 miles west) and just over 19" here in Crestview over the last 24 hours (MOST of that during the heaviest 2 hour period last night)

Still mind boggling! I thought I'd seen rain in my time but never anything remotely like that!

 

[santaman2000]

Yeah it is hard to imagine. Here's the WeatherNet release I was basing it on

 

[santaman2000]

Somebody caught this shot of the storm coming in over beach Tuesday evening and posted up on Facebook

 

[santaman2000]

Foundation washed out from under a house

 

[Macaroon]

Somebody caught this shot of the storm coming in over beach Tuesday evening and posted up on Facebook

Now that's an image to strike respect in yer soul!!!