Weather

Be Prepared

SwirlyGrrl — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:15:53 -0400

Yeah, we know the reports of most storms are overblown. But New England can and does get some doozy storms from time to time - storms that knock out power, close roads, cause floods, rip off roofs, throw trees onto buildings, etc.

Churning, lashing, swelling, we've got the fever - Hanna fever!

adamg — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:30:02 -0400

Hanna is on her way. And you know what that means, right? Reporters have to see how many times they can cram words like "churning," "lashing," "packing" and "swelling" into their stories. Bonus points for anthropomorphizing giant rain storms (don't look now, but Hanna is eying the East Coast as she churns northward, packing hurricane-force winds in bands that are expected to lash New England this weekend and spawn torrential downpours, flooding already swollen rivers).

Send in the boats: Harvard Street on the Medford/Somerville line flooded

adamg — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:51:31 -0400

5:15 p.m.: Harvard street off of Powderhouse Square is pretty much impassable right now unless you have a really tall pickup truck.

New residents of Seattle East grow tired of the rain

adamg — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:03:50 -0400

You know it's bad when firetrucks go screaming past you to rescue drivers whose cars got stuck in some floodwaters and the regional cable news network feels compelled to warn us not to drive into flash floods.

Another intense storm

adamg — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 21:27:38 -0400

Michael Fontaine took the above photo of today's storm moving in over Boston.

Lyss photographed the storm coming in over Swampscott.

Back in June:
Amazing photo of storm moving in over Cambridge.

Poor woman

adamg — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:18:15 -0400

Every time there's a heavy rain, this woman, who lives on the southbound side of the VFW Parkway, just past the West Roxbury Parkway, dons her boots and raincoat and goes out with a rake to try to keep the storm drain and "dry" catchbasin outsider her house clear, to minimize the damage from flooding. She's been doing that a lot lately.

Obama on Boston Drivers

Cynic — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:07:05 -0400

Barack Obama, in Berlin, on the perils of an inter-connected world:

As we speak, cars in Boston and factories in Beijing are melting the ice caps in the Arctic, shrinking coastlines in the Atlantic, and bringing drought to farms from Kansas to Kenya.

Time to break out the ark, Mabel

adamg — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:52:32 -0400

Paul Keleher spots a sensible driver on 128 - pulling a boat.

MEM DRIVE FLOODED. PLEASE ADVISE.

adamg — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:40:26 -0400

Shane Curcuru reports:

... [T]he Mem. underpasses to the Longfellow are glub, glub, glub. ...

Flash flood in Dorchester

adamg — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:03:08 -0400

Adam Pieniazek posts photos and videos of a flash flood on his street caused by yesterday's rain.