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Boston is drowning in historic 15ft flood of icy water - trapping people in cars and homes -...
DAILY MAIL UK ^ | Jan 4, 2018 | Valerie Edwards and Ashley Collman For Dailymail.com and Associated Press and Reuters

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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KEYWORDS: boston; flood; icestorm; snowstorm
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Flooding and ice? Oh hell no~
1 posted on 01/04/2018 5:08:26 PM PST by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Remember, cold = weather & hot = climate.


2 posted on 01/04/2018 5:10:45 PM PST by rightwingcrazy
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To: Morgana

Stop building in flood zones - looks like every 30 years it gets hit


3 posted on 01/04/2018 5:11:17 PM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: Morgana

I WARNED THEM about inviting Al Gore to speak on Global Warming.


4 posted on 01/04/2018 5:11:55 PM PST by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
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To: Morgana

‘bomb cyclone’ They couldn’t just call it a Nor’easter?


5 posted on 01/04/2018 5:13:37 PM PST by McGruff (Lock Her Up! In a Padded Cell!)
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To: Morgana

What’s the big deal... 18” snow equals 1.8” of rain... we get that in an hour sometimes...


6 posted on 01/04/2018 5:15:15 PM PST by Neidermeyer (Show me a peaceful Muslim and I will show you a heretic to the Koran.)
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To: Morgana
Video of the flooding
7 posted on 01/04/2018 5:15:25 PM PST by Teflonic (tt)
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To: Morgana

Isn’t that a bunch of Democrats there?


8 posted on 01/04/2018 5:16:00 PM PST by chris37 (Take a week off racist >;-)
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as 'bomb cyclone' storm explodes over Northeast


9 posted on 01/04/2018 5:16:35 PM PST by KarlInOhio (The Whig Party died when it fled the great fight of its century. Ditto for the Republicans now.)
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To: Morgana

Marshfield is the next town over from where I live.


10 posted on 01/04/2018 5:16:49 PM PST by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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To: Morgana

Fake News!!! We don’t believe it. Such experts as Al “The Inconvenient Fool” Gore and James Hansen, “Father of Fake Science,” assured us in 2006 that this would never happen.


11 posted on 01/04/2018 5:16:55 PM PST by txrefugee
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To: Morgana

I read an article where some liberals said we can make this stop. All we have to do is agree to a “climate DEAL”. ROTFL.


12 posted on 01/04/2018 5:17:02 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (2017 - The year the liberals' "sexual revolution" strikes back!)
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What....no Polar Vortex??


13 posted on 01/04/2018 5:17:47 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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Flooding and ice? Oh hell no~

Flooding...ice...and Princess Liawatha.We have it all here in the Gay State!

14 posted on 01/04/2018 5:21:11 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Remember: All Cultures Are Equal!)
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wind pushing water from Atlantic onshore

Its storm surge at high tides causing flooding

Central pressure of storm is equal to Cat 3 hurricane


15 posted on 01/04/2018 5:22:12 PM PST by njslim
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Who came up with the stupid ‘bomb cyclone’ name in the first place and why is everyone going along with it?


16 posted on 01/04/2018 5:22:26 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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The next time your area in Florida gets flooded and lives are at risk, will you like it when someones tell you - No big deal


18 posted on 01/04/2018 5:23:06 PM PST by ladyjane
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Not my problem. Sucks to be them.
 
19 posted on 01/04/2018 5:23:50 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (CNN is fake news.)
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To: Sacajaweau

Last year’s word or phrase like “I’m with her”...


20 posted on 01/04/2018 5:26:16 PM PST by frogjerk (We are conservatives. Not libertarians, not "fiscal conservatives", not moderates)
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