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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The weather station says we received 1" of rain here in Mount Vernon. [/quote]

Crazy. Parts of Alexandria received over 5+ inches[/quote]

There was massive flooding in Alexandria. Worst I’ve ever seen in the 20 years I’ve lived there.

https://mobile.twitter.com/betsywhalen/status/1426767840883970050

https://mobile.twitter.com/DrainALX/status/1426875531572744196/photo/1

https://mobile.twitter.com/RamirezReports/status/1426864893928558594

https://mobile.twitter.com/DrainALX/status/1426793118536450048

And this one is my worst nightmare.  https://mobile.twitter.com/DrainALX/status/1426769530060148740 [/quote]

Just awful.

Remember last summer when we got a torrential 3" of rain in like 60 minutes? That seemed incredibly unusual, and I felt so lucky that if we survived that, we could survive most storms. Russ said he calculated 5.25" in Del Ray, and there was still some light showers after his 4:30am post. https://twitter.com/patpend/status/1426826207220359169

Thankfully, we appear to be dry--at least nothing obvious. The benchmark just keeps increasing and increasing. And people still deny that climate change is real? Insane. And yes, overdevelopment is also an issue. [/quote]

Local areas of heavy rain is weather not climate. On average, the area did not get significant rain.

Previous engineering solutions to drainage was to simply channel to somewhere else. That never worked at scale. More modern solutions focus on capturing the water and holding it for slow release. Permeable asphalt and catch basins are the future solutions that will be slow to implement but better in the long term. Everyone dumping their gutters into the street does not scale.[/quote]

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