STORM2K

Man it was back in 2000 when i first experienced my first flood it happened during a thunderstorm.
the water rosed to the top step man for some strange reason i was getting excited, but my mother was sorta worried the water would get in the house.
i wasn't cause you know i was 6 at the time. i not afraid of floods unless some hurricane katrina flood happens in my area. funny how it only flooded during a ordinary storm, but not hurricane or tropical storm.

anyways you know my little story about my first flood lets hear about your.

in frances 2004 when the circulation got off the west
coast my canal back yard flooded and overflowed onto the streets

and in barry this june the canal water flooded my back
yard and some streets...

I dont live in a flood prone area. Minor flooding (<3") during Frances, Barry, and Dennis. It takes 13" in less than 6 hours to flood my street, and even that drained of in a few hours.

Seems Frances is coming up alot. Thats the only time it has flooded at my house as well was during Frances. My backyard was turning into a lake and water was about 2 inches away from coming into my backdoor. Hubby had to go outside and dig a hole in the lowest part of our backyard, put a 5 gallon bucket in it and a sump pump in the bucket and pump the water out to front of our house into the drainage ditch that was already full too. Good thing he had the pump or I think we would have had some water in the house. I hope that doesn't happen again, that was no fun at all.

Two words.

Hurricane Floyd.

Moved to USA Weather (check the language of the first post, it's asking about all floods, not just tropical cyclones).

Our neighborhood flooded really bad during the major flood event in spring of 05, had about 12 inches of rain in 24 hours and the street drains couldn't take it.

Nope; my house has never even been close to being flooded.

Except for that one time the water heater broke.

Oh, and that other time a water pipe broke in one of the closets.

Frances and Ivan 9 days a part here in the Ohio Valley. Worse flooding I have ever seen.

Luckily I live on a hill, but neighbors near the river bottom do get flooded.

It's a pretty dry area over here, at least when compared to the Gulf or the NW US Coast, but it does rain hard (just not as often in those other places) during t-storms and it does flood.

Inronically, the biggest floods however, happen on hot and dry days and during early heatwaves. In Spring, say May, the snow can be 8-10 feet deep in the mountains. If an early heat wave hits between May or early June and sends temperatures into the upper 80's or lower 90's, a lot of snow can melt fast and it all comes down the river quick, overspilling the banks and flooding everthing not on a hill.

The worst year was 1983. A quote from the USGS:

The winter of 1982-83 was among the most severe in Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and parts of other Western States since records began. Wet, cold weather with large accumulations of snow continued through April. A record snowpack resulted from the extended winter weather and lingered until May or early June. Temperatures stayed cold longer than normal and when they began to rise, it was a sharp and rapid increase. Several events resulted from these conditions-(1) High-magnitude streamflow, both in terms of volume and maximum discharges, occurred in most of these Western States; (2) the first required use of spillways at Hoover and Glen Canyon Dams on the Colorado River; (3) long-duration flooding along the lower Colorado River; (4) devastating landslides and debris flows in Utah and Nevada; and (5) the highest water level since 1924 in the Great Salt Lake.

The flood hit hard here, but at the time I lived in Salt Lake City. It hit there too and we got flooded. Here is a photograph of downtown:



Thistle got hit worse, but luckily it was a small town. The entire town was destoyed and buried under water 165 feet deep and has been a ghost town ever since.

http://www.ghosttowns.com/states/ut/thistle.html

Hurricane Agnes was the first flood that I can remember, then Gloria, then Floyd. Some T-storms just give us huge puddles, but if we get hit with any hurricanes (which is very rare)we get major flooding

The worst flooding I remember here is in November 2001 when it rained around 9 inches in a day. It was pretty widespread flooding.

And in 1997 there was a lot of flooding along the Mississippi River about 10 miles west of here, but the levees protected us, of course.

one word... Allison....

back in June we had lots of extensive flooding.

Twice.

First time was March 27, 1964 on Turnagain Arm, Alaska.....there was an earthquake, subsidence, astronomical high tides and the water was sloshing around in the inlet. My father took us to high ground immediately. By morning our home was a complete loss. We were not alone. The entire neighborhood was lost.

Second time happened here in Mississippi. Several years before Katrina. The pond behind our home is the headwaters for Brushy creek that flows into the Pearl river. It was a Sunday morning.....we were in church and a big rain came along.....dropped inches in no time at all. We got home to find water surrounding the house. Everything looked okay until we opened the door.......and raw sewage came pouring out. The local sewer system had max'd out and a forced main pumped the sewage into our home. We now have two seperate back flow preventers and new ceramic floors throughout.

Had training thunderstorms over my apartment complex back in college. We lived by two small creeks. 8" of intense rain for 2 hours caused both creeks to rise rapidly and converge right in our apartment complex parking lot. I thought things were all right after the storms moved through and was just about to go to bed. I heard something sound like metal grinding against metal and opened the window and looked out. A garbage dumpster was FLOATING down the parking lot and running into cars.

I didn't have any time to get my own car out of the parking lot. Ended up with 4 feet of water in my car. Eventually got it all repaired.

That was just from intense rain over a short amount of time. Can't imagine what a tropical system parked over an area would do.

--snoopj

TS Allison: 3 feet in the house. A little over 15 inches in about 6 hours.

October 2002: 6 " in house...that was the last flood...moved after that.

Other big flood dates in Harris County:

TS Claudette (43" in 24 hrs)
TS Allison (1989, 10-15")
May 1989 ( N and E Harris)
March 1992 (5-10" over metro areas)
October 1994 (20-25 inches of 4 days, record flooding on San Jacinto River, 4200 homes flooded)
TS Frances (1998, severe flooding along White Oak Bayou, Jersey Village)
October 1998 ( 10-20" over N Harris, Cypress Creek overflowed basin divide into Addicks)
TS Allison (2001, 26" in 12 hours, 81,000 homes flooded)
October 2002 (5-8" in 3 hours N Harris)
November 2003 (5-8" in 3-4 hours W and N Harris)
June 2006 (8-12" near Hobby Airport in 4-5 hours, 3000 homes flooded)
October 2006 (4-8" over S Harris)
October 2006 ( 6-8" over Tomball)
TS Erin (2007, 6-9" over SE Harris, 508 homes flooded, 601 apartment units)
November 1998 (5-10" over N Harris)

My neighborhood is on a very sandy ridge. We've gotten 30 inches of rain in 36 hours, and it still drains effectively.

jeff wrote:TS Allison: 3 feet in the house. A little over 15 inches in about 6 hours.

October 2002: 6 " in house...that was the last flood...moved after that.

Other big flood dates in Harris County:

TS Claudette (43" in 24 hrs)
TS Allison (1989, 10-15")
May 1989 ( N and E Harris)
March 1992 (5-10" over metro areas)
October 1994 (20-25 inches of 4 days, record flooding on San Jacinto River, 4200 homes flooded)
TS Frances (1998, severe flooding along White Oak Bayou, Jersey Village)
October 1998 ( 10-20" over N Harris, Cypress Creek overflowed basin divide into Addicks)
TS Allison (2001, 26" in 12 hours, 81,000 homes flooded)
October 2002 (5-8" in 3 hours N Harris)
November 2003 (5-8" in 3-4 hours W and N Harris)
June 2006 (8-12" near Hobby Airport in 4-5 hours, 3000 homes flooded)
October 2006 (4-8" over S Harris)
October 2006 ( 6-8" over Tomball)
TS Erin (2007, 6-9" over SE Harris, 508 homes flooded, 601 apartment units)
November 1998 (5-10" over N Harris)

I remember all those floods. The March 1992 flood caused some people to stay in school until 8:00 PM. The May 1989 flood was caused by thunderstorms that formed in Central Texas and produced a tornado in Jarrell. I also remember a flood in May of 1990.

My yard has flooded many times, and sometimes a couple of the ground floor rooms of my house have also flooded; usually in winter. This is due to a nearby stream and water shed that either overflows due to heavy rainfall, or gets clogged with ice and overflows during a rapid snow melt. Either case not a pretty sight. Had a minor flood during a quick warm up and freeze Nor’easter last February, and had a major flood (boy the water was shooting up out of the drainage ditch that night) in another Nor’easter rainstorm in January 2006.