Re: stay safe Chris
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Chris in Tampa on 11/12/2020, 6:35 am
Thanks everybody. Very little wind damage in my neighborhood. One tree down that someone had just put in very recently after re-landscaping their yard. It wasn't supported so it fell. Otherwise, small things like palm fronds. While I am on Tampa Bay, on the Tampa side, the Gulf coast of Pinellas County was closer to the center so they saw the higher winds. At the Tampa International Airport weather station, about 1.5 miles east-southeast of me, it was sustained at 26mph and gusting to 41mph for the highest hourly reading.
The front entrance to my neighborhood flooded, from the tide, which it normally does during tropical storms. I didn't go into my back yard during high tide when it was still windy so I didn't see how much the water came over my seawall. At the peak, the water level was 4.19 feet above normal at the nearest station in Tampa Bay. It came over my seawall perhaps by a foot, which would come up into my yard horizontally 3 to 4 feet. My dad walks each morning and actually got in an hour walk around the neighborhood while it wasn't raining, just misting, and saw what things looked like. He took a quick look and saw the line of debris in our back yard from the water level after it had receded. I'll take a look later today.
The airport near me got 4.11 inches while our rain gauge was closer to 5 inches.
A beach about 1 mile west-southwest from me, Ben T. Davis, can be seen in the video here on this page:
https://www.wfla.com/weather/tracking-the-tropics/gallery-tropical-storm-eta-floods-tampa-bay-streets/
Under "Courtney Campbell Causeway (via Tampa PD)". I guess the bridge must have been closed for a bit due to the flooding.
While there was coastal flooding along the Gulf of course, that level of water in the Bay will have caused some flooding in some neighborhoods from the high tide. A little over 4 feet of surge is on par with the highest surges I have seen, like I think Frances was in 2004. |
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