Heh, Beavis, they said "doody".
Posted on 01/04/2018 5:08:26 PM PST by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Boston is drowning in historic 15ft flood of icy water - trapping people in cars and homes - as 'bomb cyclone' storm explodes over Northeast closing schools, cancelling 4,000 flights and killing six
Boston experienced historic flooding on Thursday, as a 'bomb cyclone' winter storm hit the Northeast, bringing heavy snow, winds and storm surge.
Meteorologists said Boston was unofficially nearing a water level record set during the Blizzard of 1978.
Matt Doody, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Taunton, told the Boston Herald that the Weather Service couldn't 'officially' call it a new record, but the water was hovering around the 15.1 foot mark set during the historic storm 40 years ago.
The system is also very similar to a storm that hit the Northeast on the exact same day in 1989, according to the Weather Service.
At least a dozen people have been rescued from flooded homes in Marshfield, and a handful of others were rescued from cars under water in the South Shore region of Massachusetts.
'It's up over the roof of cars. It's up over four feet,' Deputy Fire Chief Louis Cipullo said of the floodwaters in the area.
The nor'easter threatened to dump as much as 18 inches of snow from the Carolinas to Maine - causing schools and office to close and thousands of flights to be cancelled.
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So far as I can tell, it looks like Winter in the Northeast.
In the 1940s and 50s meteorologists at the Bergen School of Meteorology began informally calling some storms that grew over the sea "bombs" because they developed with a great ferocity rarely seen over land.[12]
By the 1970s the terms "explosive cyclogenesis" and even "meteorological bombs" were being used by MIT professor Fred Sanders (building on work from the 1950s by Tor Bergeron), who brought the term into common usage in a 1980 article in the Monthly Weather Review.[8][12] In 1980, Sanders and his colleague John Gyakum defined a "bomb" as an extratropical cyclone that deepens by at least (24 sin φ/ sin 60˚)mb in 24 hours, where φ represents latitude in degrees.
Oh, for heaven's sake, do it right!
'cobalt salted thermonuclear bomb the size of 'Tsar Bomba' cyclone'
“Isn’t that a bunch of Democrats there?”
Oh yeah! Hope its a bunch of MA libs!
There’s a few whitecaps on those waves - that means winds are about 15-20 knots.
Isn’t that regular winter?
It's more than just the snow fall.
Coastal flooding due to storm surge (yes, it happened because of this extreme low). That caused coastal flooding. And there was a combination of ice, slush, and water. High winds, the current moon phase, and other factor have combined to make this more destructive and dangerous.
This looks bad, I saw three Oldsmobile’s float by ...
Yes. The problem seems to be storm surge coupled with high tides.
Heh, Beavis, they said "doody".
Because it’s too cold to be a sharknado.
Let me know when you see three Model-Ts float by.
Glouster, Ma got hit badly.
doody
Such a pity.
I really hope they all know how to swim.
It's Mike Trout!!
Ice, record cold - but wait a minute - historic flooding - sea levels rising - see, Global Warming(TM) theory can be made to fit any circumstance......
What? They haven’t given it a name yet?
Like maybe Mega Winter Storm Bomb... Ragnar?
Realistic title: Boston flooding from really cold Nor’easter.
It’s at times like these that I reflect on just how powerless we humans are when it comes to nature. Sure we can damn rivers, clear forests, even plant forests, we feel as if sometimes we’re omnipotent over it all. And then God makes it snow, sends hail storms, rains, droughts and earthquakes and the more sensible among, the believers in HIS presence and power realize we don’t control squat. It’s things like this that make me shake my head in bemusement and disgust at the “Climate Changers’’ who think we have to power to somehow effect of of this.
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