Tropical Storm Bill

[DFSNOLE]

Looks like we have our first named storm in the gulf for the season and Bill has his eyes on the already soaked Texas. Don't think wind will be an issue but I hope any flooding is not as bad as what they experienced about a month ago. Y'all stay safe.

 

[Bobcat07]

Looks like it's going to be tame compared to Memorial Day night when we got 10" in about 3.5 hours. Media is absolutely blowing this out of proportion and the people flocked to HEB/Randalls/Krogers here yesterday and bought all the water/flashlights. I still have to go to work, so this storm sucks!

 

[Fijimn]

Yep, people love to lose their mind. I'm in office. We told staff to use your best judgment. It's not that bad and most have called in. I told my partners that I would bet a year's salary that if it was the weekend our staff would brave the storm to go out

 

[noleclone2]

Been reading some interesting things that some models predict conditions are set up for it to intensify over north Texas and Oklahoma due to flat topography and recent rains. They have coined this the brown ocean effect. Pretty unique phenomenon if it happens

 

[Bobcat07]

Yep, people love to lose their mind. I'm in office. We told staff to use your best judgment. It's not that bad and most have called in. I told my partners that I would bet a year's salary that if it was the weekend our staff would brave the storm to go out

Yeah, that's typical employee behavior and true about the weekend going out as well.

Ironically, my office just sent out an email saying that we should leave by 1 PM because the conditions are expected to worsen rapidly. Unless something changed with the forecast track since 7 AM, it sounds like they bought into all the local media fear mongering. I won't complain though, will let me go home early and watch the Astros day game and take a nap so I'm fine with that!

 

[Fijimn]

Yeah, that's typical employee behavior and true about the weekend going out as well.

Ironically, my office just sent out an email saying that we should leave by 1 PM because the conditions are expected to worsen rapidly. Unless something changed with the forecast track since 7 AM, it sounds like they bought into all the local media fear mongering. I won't complain though, will let me go home early and watch the Astros day game and take a nap so I'm fine with that!

Yep, I'm going to leave early to be save. 288 can get a little rough in high water.

 

[goldmom]

Wow, we could use rain here in NoFla. There are three wildfire outbreaks here in the Jax area right now. The weather pattern definitely needs to shift.

 

[DFSNOLE]

Wow, we could use rain here in NoFla. There are three wildfire outbreaks here in the Jax area right now. The weather pattern definitely needs to shift.

Here in NW Fla, we need no more. Well above average rainfall. What a difference a few hundred miles make.

 

[Bobcat07]

Wow, we could use rain here in NoFla. There are three wildfire outbreaks here in the Jax area right now. The weather pattern definitely needs to shift.

Hopefully you'll get relief, but not all at once like Texas has been getting lately!

It's crazy how the pattern shifted here, there was a graphic posted about the extreme Texas drought over the last 5 years and how quickly it's been completely been reversed in the last year especially.

 

[Fijimn]

The summer of 2011 was brutal. over 100 days of 95-plus days with no rain. My foundation cracked - just terrible. I don't live on a bayou and have the freedom to leave work or not come in if I decide it's too dangerous, so the rain/flood is better.

 

[PoopandBoogers]

Wow, we could use rain here in NoFla. There are three wildfire outbreaks here in the Jax area right now. The weather pattern definitely needs to shift.

 

[JohnnieHolmesNole]

Yep, people love to lose their mind. I'm in office. We told staff to use your best judgment. It's not that bad and most have called in. I told my partners that I would bet a year's salary that if it was the weekend our staff would brave the storm to go out

Staffers definitely love to stir the pot, and will stop at nothing to avoid working. Almost funny to hear them recklessly passing along "what they heard," blah-blah-blah. Just the nature of the beast.