Re: Comments from and concerning SE Virginia
Posted by AquaRN on 9/10/2018, 1:57 pm
Yup...people remember Isabel....lost power, water, horrible flooding, thousands of trees came down....and with the ground so wet like it is now (6 in here in past three days).those huge trees uproot with wind. And when they come down, they take or uproot overhead or underground lines. I am sure they will close the Midtown and Downtown tunnel flood gates which immediately stop a lot of travel in this large metropolitan area. This should be interesting.

I started this SE VA thread so people only have to read it if they want. Yes, as awful as it may be here....my heart goes out to those in mid NC. Beautiful area. Friends have a second home in Duck, NC. Evac starts at 8am tomm.they were heading there now to board etc.. They have the Sound on one side and ocean on the other. Sure hope the land in the middle does not fully disappear.

Hurricanes make new areas, take out old ones as we know. "The storm of October 1749 built up the sand bottom and created a giant sandbar. When the wind and the waves calmed down, a finger of dry land was created. And since then, wave action has added more real estate to the area that is known today as Willoughby Spit." Now there are homes and businesses all over it. https://www.google.com/search?q=pictures+of+Willoughby+spit&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=G1uTBQgYIgKjRM%253A%252CiFj3FrHvvNpzeM%252C_&usg=AFrqEzdfiGoEB88g6h_GRJe7u9hUnHCerg&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi59ebdgLHdAhVrmuAKHV7aB2gQ9QEwAXoECAYQBg#imgrc=G1uTBQgYIgKjRM:

Reminds me of the old, childhood Bible song about the man who built his house on the sand. Bottom line....what appears suddenly can disappear just as quickly.
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