Still Rough
November 13th, 2009 at 10:23 am by Jeremy Wheeler under Weather
The tide is going down, but remember we are falling from a high tide of 7.3 ft. Sewell’s point is down to 5.43″. Here is a pic from the Guinea area of Gloucester:
Thanks Angie. There are scattered showers out there, but the wind gusts aren’t too bad. They’ve been running about 30-35mph. Again next high tide will be between 5 and 7pm. Someone wanted me to mention that you should also try to avoid driving in water because the water is salty and will corrode the metal under your car along with your brakes. I know there are a lot of comments on here still about specific areas, but I think the better question is who hasn’t had flooding? I look forward to tomorrow.
Meteorologist: Jeremy Wheeler
WAVY/Fox 43 Meteorologist
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It’s about 1130 AM, Friday, 13 Nov. Of interest last night around 5:30 PM when the high tide was reported to have essentially occurred, in the Knitting Mill Creek area off of Colley Avenue in Norfolk, the tide continued to rise for approximately another 1-1.5 hrs. The local event here was caused by a massive continuous East/NE wind which brought huge waves into the yards of the homes on the west side of Knitting Mill Creek. The tide levels in this local area were well above Isabelle. Flooding in basement areas due to direct tidal surge have never occurred before, but occurred last night. Whether you were above or below the Isabelle level was dependent on your location, in my view. Here on Knitting Mill Creek, we were clearly above.
We live in a subdivision with man-made canals off of Powhatan Creek near Jamestown Island in James City County. We typically get 2′ to 2.5′ tidal change, and tidal surge is a real concern for us. Consequently, we have appreciated WAVY 10’s in-depth coverage during this storm. However, we’re curious to know why the tidal surge in our canals last night and today, which according to your reports was only a few inches below the tides from Hurricane Isabelle, was at least 24-28 inches lower than Isabelle. We had 22 inches of water in our garage during Isabelle but none from this storm. Any idea what made the tidal surge in our area from this storm so different?
there is a huge tree up rooted on ransom rd(i think thats how it is spelled) in norfolk the tree knocked down power lines and went straight through the middle of the house huge tree by the way the people that lived there moed out not too long ago it is eye opening to see such a big tree uprooted like that
What I thought was interesting was that the James River was completely calm along James City County. It was very interesting. The water level was extremely much higher than usual but there were absoluelty no waves. (At least not on Thursday at around 5).
I could tell the water level was about 8-11 feet higher than normal, there was absolutely no beach area