Chet said:
Same in Milwaukee. And it looks like rain again today.
Gotta love MMSD, too. B-) Over the past couple of weeks they placed nearly 10 million cubic meters |-) of untreated sewage :-# from their 'combined' sewers into Lake Michigan and it continues to flow freely with no end in sight. :-@
It is looking more and more like they will have to spend a stupendous amount of money 8-! (it will make any new rail-transit system look cheap) install an entire new storm sewer system to 'seperate' the sewers and remove rain runoff from the sewage flow in the approximately pre-WWII part of the city and the suburban Village of Shorewood. This is on top of the $1 billion+ that was spent in the 1980s and 1990s to construct a 'deep tunnel' sewer in an attempt to store the storm runoff for treatment :-o.
At its expected cost, adding streetcar rails in those streets when the pipes are installed would be a minor afterthought.
As for the Appleton area, we've also gotten lots of off and on rain and some thunder, but nothing 'severe'. Most of the nasty stuff passed us well to the south.
Mike
boiker said:
I'm in Peoria, IL, about that eastern lobe of the high risk area.
Time to strap it up and hunker down. They're predicting tornadoes and hail followed by a derecho. If anyone has experienced a full-blown derecho, they don't forget. A derecho is a long lived fast moving line of storms that 'bows' in the middle. At the peak of the bow is commonly 80-140 mph straight-line winds. They are exceptionally fast moving storms and will 'live' across multiple states.
We had one of those (I think of it as the 'perfect thunderstorm') blow through the Appleton-Neenah-Oshkosh, WI area in mid-June of 2001. I live at the very north edge and it was WINDY, over hurricane strength. Many trees were down (that damage happened westward well past Waupaca, WI) and power was out from a few blocks south of my house all the way through Oshkosh, many neighborhoods were not back up for nearly two weeks.
Mike