What a freaking mess

[hey_moe]

Chet, we have had so much rain this morning I am unable to get to my work van to go to work. Pool flooded out and as the rain poured the water started coming into my garage. This is the first time I have ever seen this much flooding here. I have been in this house for also 17 years. Even during the bad hurricanes the water never got this high. While I was watching the News this morning it never said one thing about flash flooding. Now a few hours later the News is posting pictures of all the flooding and now they are giving us warnings..lol.

[hey_moe]

Is your car parked here >> http://www.dailypress.com/news/break...,3289756.story

[Ickie]

that's a Florida mud puddle

[Dangerousdave26]

that's a Florida mud puddle

Without Gators

[Sascha66]

Oh sh**t! But it doesn't look as if you could have done anything even with fair warning except maybe head for high ground ...:isadizzy:

[AckAck]

Oh sh**t! But it doesn't look as if you could have done anything even with fair warning except maybe head for high ground ...:isadizzy:

Florida's high point is 600 feet above sea level - I'm not sure there is higher ground.

[Dangerousdave26]

Florida's high point is 600 feet above sea level - I'm not sure there is higher ground.

And that is probably an old landfill.

[Daveroo]

gosh im liking california's mountains right now,,,,fires n all

[srgalahad]

t'was a day when 2" of rain would just be absorbed, but with more and more land being paved over or covered in housing/malls water just follows the next line of least resistance... into basements and down roads. At the same time, storm drains spec'd and laid in 1960 can't handle the load of 21st century populations and housing, but who's got the infrastructure $$ to rebuild?

[Kofschip]

t'was a day when 2" of rain would just be absorbed, but with more and more land being paved over or covered in housing/malls water just follows the next line of least resistance... into basements and down roads. At the same time, storm drains spec'd and laid in 1960 can't handle the load of 21st century populations and housing, but who's got the infrastructure $$ to rebuild?

The greedy developers and politicians.......

[n4gix]

Florida's high point is 600 feet above sea level - I'm not sure there is higher ground.

I'm don't now if it's there any longer*, but there used to be a very high (~800') pile of tailings that was mostly sand somewhere on the west side of the highway between Bartow and Lakeland. This would have been at that time the highest "mountain" in Florida.

Back in the mid-fifties we'd pile in the car after church on Sunday and head off for an afternoon of "sleding" on "Sand Mountain" and a picnic...

* I suspect that it's been leveled off by now, since it's not mentioned at all in a Google search...

[AckAck]

Maybe Florida is sinking. The 600 foot measurement came from my dusty memory, but Google indicates that the highest (natural) point in Florida is 345 feet.

[cheezyflier]

Maybe Florida is sinking. The 600 foot measurement came from my dusty memory, but Google indicates that the highest (natural) point in Florida is 345 feet.

it might be some kinda "thing"
what i mean is, after reading your post, i went to wiki and looked up delaware. i was always taught that the highest elevation there was mount cuba, at 66' asl. wiki says

The Ebright Azimuth is the point with the highest benchmark monument elevation in Delaware. It is marked with a geodetic benchmark monument and has an elevation of 447.85 feet (136.50 m) above sea level. The only state high-point with a lower elevation is Britton Hill in the state of Florida at 345 feet (105 m) above sea level.