#scflood

[hsnaples]

Originally rescued from the #SCFloods due to Hurricane Joaquin, Colleen is still waiting for her furever home. She would do best with an active person or family that can appreciate her energy. Her adoption fee is waived in celebration of #RedWhiteAndWoof! #AdoptCOLLEEN 🇺🇸🐶❤️ #HumaneSocietyNaples #AdoptDontShop #SWFL #NaplesFlorida #DogsOfIG #HoundDog #Rescue Meet Colleen at our main shelter: http://hsnaples.org/adoptabledetails/?id=29897327 (at Humane Society Naples)

[heartshandsdisasterrecovery]

Welcome Home!

Hearts & Hands Disaster Recovery is honored to announce that Jessica Boykins and her family have moved into their new home thanks to the hard work of her Disaster Case Manager Glenda Harrison and our community partners. 

Ms. Boykins' home suffered severe damage from the October Flood in 2015. After working her case, she was referred to CDBG-DR program and had a home assessment in November. In December, there was a house fire which took the remaining items that had been salvaged from the flood. Fortunately, because of the previous assessment, she qualified for a brand new mobile home.

Many thanks and appreciate to: SCDRO for helping provide a brand new home, Flood HUB for the donation of a full house of items, Red Cross, Salvation Army, and United Ministries in Sumter for various resource support, Harvest Hope for donating food to go in their new home, her Disaster Case Manager Glenda Harrison, and the hard work of Ms. Boykins being active in her recovery.

[farmerstansandbarefeet]

We really need prayers here in South Carolina; it’s rained over 12 inches in one day and it hasn’t stopped yet. I just read an article from the National Weather Service that said we would be getting 3 months of rainfall in just 3 days and that is very evident. Schools have been closed and many homes are completely underwater in some areas. Prayers are desperately needed!

[totipa-s]

Be thankful for a dry, warm home tonight folks. There are many who have lost that privilege these past few days in SC

[earthstory]

The proliferation of phones that can take video means that with an event like the South Carolina floods, there are going to be some spectacular videos taken by people watching it happen. Here’s a compilation of multiple, worth looking through.

[heartshandsdisasterrecovery]

Welcome Home!

Hearts & Hands Disaster Recovery is honored to announce that Minnie Mayrant has moved into her new home thanks to the hard work of her Disaster Case Manager Shanice Kelly and our community partners. Ms. Mayrant was displaced after suffering a complete loss of her home and all of her personal items from the Flood of 2015. After starting the process and being approved, she has received a brand new home from SCDRO. Many thanks and appreciat to: SCDRO for helping provide a brand new home, Flood HUB for the donation of a full house of items, Harvest Hope for donating food to go in their new home, her Disaster Case Manager Shanice Kelly, and the hard work of Ms. Mayrant being active in her recovery. ?

[thedailyshare]

Drone footage shows the devastation caused by flash flooding in South Carolina

[missyday8977]

Stay safe #scflood #scflood2015

[earthstory]

How bad has the rain been in South Carolina? This weather forecaster had to step off stage after tearing up when he saw the Sun broadcast Tuesday Morning.

[lucinaisbae]

Hey guys, sorry for all the personal crap today (though not really cuz this is my personal blog)

Anyway, as most of you probably aren’t aware, I live and grew up in Columbia SC. If you have been watching the news you have probably seen the disater that has befallen my home town. My old neighborhood received one of the heaviest blows and many of my family friends have had their personal belongings destroyed in the flood.

So now I’m asking for your help. My family has owned Webb Rawls Galleries for half a century, and it is my grandparents sole source of income. last week it was filled with nearly 7 feet of floodwater. All of the inventory and equipment, including three computers and a high tech mat-cutter were destroyed.

we could not get flood insurance on the building, which needs thousands of dollars worth of repair. My grandfather is going through treatment for esophageal cancer, and both of my grandparents depend on this store to survive.

If you would like to help, please donate to our gofundme. an small amount helps, and you will be helping a family run business support our small community.

Thank you!

[heartshandsdisasterrecovery]

Welcome Home!

​Hearts & Hands Disaster Recovery is honored to announce that Dyesheikia June her family has moved into their new home. This single mother of two young children suffered major damage during the Flood of 2015. The extent of the damage included a destroyed roof, mold, and insulation. Even after being passed by another recovery project, she persevered with the help of her HHDR Disaster Case Manager Laronda Brockington, and started to process of applying for the CDBG Grant. Through Ms. June's patience with her recovery from the Flood of 2015, it has resulted with her and her family receiving a new home. Many thanks and appreciate to: SCDRO for helping provide a brand new home, Catholic Charities for support with temporary housing, Harvest Hope for donating food to go in their new home, her Disaster Case Manager Laronda Brockington, and the hard work of Ms. June being active in her recovery.

[earthstory]

Thousand year storm

Over the past few days, the state of South Carolina received an enormous amount of rain from a band of tropical moisture related to Hurricane Joaquin (http://tmblr.co/Zyv2Js1vYkU_k). The rainfall caused flooding (http://tmblr.co/Zyv2Js1vXdmXE) so severe that the state issued instructions for people to stay in their homes on Sunday. As the rain died down, the governor of South Carolina said that the state had its worst rains in "a thousand years”.

That’s an interesting statement since records of weather in South Carolina don’t go back a thousand years. How exactly do scientists know what the weather was like 800 years before there were records? Well, the governor wasn't exactly correct in her statement. This rainfall counts as a "thousand year storm", but that doesn't necessarily mean it hasn't happened in a thousand years.

Rather than requiring records going back a thousand years, a thousand year rainfall event or a thousand year flood can be defined based on probability. This plot shows measured peak discharge rates in the Red River plotted against how often that event has happened. When a few fractions are calculated, the data in this plot tends to approximate a line. Given enough measurements of flood stage on a river, a few decades of data is enough to establish the probability of flood events of a certain size.

Even if a thousand years of records don’t exist, using a plot like this and projecting, weather forecasters can assess how often an event of a certain size should occur on average. In this case, the numbers below do show that this size storm actually exceeds the 1000 year projected rain totals, so this was at least a thousand year event, maybe more.

Worth remembering though, just because a storm is a “thousand year storm” doesn’t mean it won’t be a thousand years before it happens again. An area could go hundreds of years with no “hundred year storms” and then suddenly have several of them within a short period and the statistical estimate of recurrence interval would still be accurate. So the governor's statement is on the right track, but was missing some understanding of how the calculation works.

Furthermore, that measurement makes one other assumption: a representative climate. If the climate of an area changes substantially, then the data built up regarding recurrence intervals won’t be relevant any more. Since it could take decades to truly recognize that the previous data is no longer relevant, major climate change is a potential problem in this type of statistical estimate. As the atmosphere today is very different than the atmosphere when this type of data started being collected, it is entirely possible that our previous estimates of “thousand year floods” and “thousand year storms” could no longer be accurate in many areas around the world. Since events like this can cause major damage and death, an increase in the recurrence rate of damaging storms could be very costly.

-JBB

Image credit: http://serc.carleton.edu/details/images/3984.html http://serc.carleton.edu/quantskills/methods/quantlit/floods.html http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/04/us/east-coast-rain-flood/index.html http://abcnews.go.com/US/charleston-south-carolina-soaked-worst-rains-1000-years/story?id=34233408 http://hdsc.nws.noaa.gov/hdsc/pfds/pfds_map_cont.html?bkmrk=sc

Small footnote: So far this rainstorm in South Carolina is being called a "Thousand year rainfall event". That doesn't translate directly to a "Thousand year flood" on South Carolina rivers - the conditions that create floods are related to weather but other issues like construction and previous rainfall influence those as well. For this post I crossed up both floods and storm volumes since they can be calculated the same way...and because I had a shareable image showing the way this data is processed for flooding.

[katialeephotography]

You know you've lived abroad most your life when....

You get a call to evacuate and the only thing you think of is “Where’s my passport?”

Not– grab the cameras. Pack the laptop. Get the dog’s records and food. But “Where’s my passport?” Immediately followed by this second thought:

“Idiot. You don’t need no stinkin passport.”

[bonniekate87]

My friend Nick braving the flood waters in his front yard

[lifewithlexx]

So my hometown is flooded. Buildings are collapsing, bridges are falling, dams are breaking and I still have to study for this midterm.