OT:Hurricane Frances

Linda Mann commented about Frances headed our way.  I just took a look at the
projected path, Linda, and Huntsville, AL, is right on the centerline after it
makes hash out of central FL and SE Georgia.  That suggests all of us on the
eastern side of that line are likely to see a fair amount of rain.

When Hurricane Opal hit here a few years ago, coming up from the Gulf, there
was a fair amount of limb breakage, power outages, a few trees downed, and a
whopping amount of runoff.  I never did hear the rainfall totals.

None of the hurricanes have affected the Asheville area as much as locally
forming weather,  The area lies in a basin right in the top of the mountain
range with higher elevations in every direction.  A relatively narrow, crooked
canyon drains the area where the French Broad River runs down toward
Knoxville, emerging to form the south branch of the Tennesee River.  The shape
of the bowl in western NC both protects the area somewhat from outside
weather, it also tends to trap air which, as the population rises, can get a
little much overused.  Ozone levels climb.

The Tennesee River Valley, however, is a SW to NE oriented broad valley from
Chattanooga upward that will channel things like Hurricane Frances right up
the creek to Kingsport and beyond.

Maybe both of us need to get out our water wings, right along with everyone
else in this quarter of the continent.

Neil Mogensen  z 7 western NC mountains

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