Submitted by Desi_techy_girl t3_zu93jw in jerseycity
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Desi_techy_girl OP t1_j1hpgse wrote
Just a guess, somewhere it is raining or snowing and all of that is adding water to Hudson which is coming down to us and it’s overflowing.
lukasbarton t1_j1hq8o2 wrote
So you took someone else's photo from NextDoor from yesterday to try and farm some karma off of it here? https://imgur.com/a/bWXrRXQ
TiredOfMakingExcuses t1_j1hqh7z wrote
Timing of the rain combined with timing of high tide. If the tides are high, it's harder for the pumps to clear the water out
objectimpermanence t1_j1hqqbk wrote
I would guess it’s probably strong winds combined with a rising tide. Plus maybe storm water draining into the river from upstream?
High tide is at 8:38am and 9:14pm today according to this.
DoxxingShillDownvote t1_j1hsh4y wrote
I mean.. she got 7 whole points of "karma"... what a haul
Marybelle18 t1_j1hsndp wrote
Maybe she’s the NextDoor OP?
mikeyterp t1_j1htyot wrote
It's not even close at the moment. Was just at semicolon
moonfire098 t1_j1huyyu wrote
Is it like this today too
Desi_techy_girl OP t1_j1hv9tc wrote
I was sent this on WhatsApp and I put it on here so that more people can know about it.
deaddabrain t1_j1hw8ff wrote
Ok Karen
MCMLXXXII t1_j1hwuqq wrote
The usual reason for coastal flooding is low atmospheric pressure. We might not even think of it but air has mass and it is usually weighing down on the oceans and keeping it compressed. The air when there is low pressure is less dense so there is less weight pushing down on the seas. This causes the previously compressed water to expand and that is why the sea level rises slightly. This is most notable during times of hurricanes as they are very large low pressure systems.
Byzantium-1204 t1_j1i031k wrote
It’ll be an ice skating rink
jerseycityfrankie t1_j1i4frc wrote
Seriously? Fear monger Karma farming?
scubastefon t1_j1i5l64 wrote
Some solid flashbacks to 2012. The year, not the movie.
scubastefon t1_j1i642e wrote
That’s right. This town is at the end of the Hudson, and every drop of water from the Adirondacks, down through the Valley and onwards passes by it.
fruit__gummy t1_j1i6ukz wrote
I’m not sure the water “decompresses”, I think it’s more like, higher pressure regions of the ocean push up lower pressure regions of the ocean. Think hydraulic pistons etc.
Water is pretty incompressible. If it wasn’t, a gallon of water at the bottom of a swimming pool would weigh more than a gallon from the top, but this isn’t actually true in real life
So water isn’t actually “expanding”, it’s just being pushed up by regions of the ocean with higher atmospheric pressure
I could be wrong but this is my understanding
Edit: actually pretty much every part of your comment is wrong lmao. Why do you speak with such authority on things you have no clue about
nasty_brutish_longer t1_j1i6xf2 wrote
Sort of. High pressure areas of a storm can "bulge" seas into low pressure areas, but most surge force by far is from wind moving in the same direction.
Atmospheric pressure is absolutely a thing on this planet, but the difference between typical high and low pressure systems isn't that great compared to the total mass of air.
*Edited to add link and remove "compress." As another poster points out, water is essentially incompressible.
mooseLimbsCatLicks t1_j1i6xjd wrote
fascinating, thanks
MaxTheSquirrel t1_j1i7rnb wrote
and The Day After Tomorrow
Benkrunk t1_j1i9g1f wrote
Bruh chill
jerseycityfrankie t1_j1iahne wrote
Who puts up a day old photo of some alarming thing potentially effecting us all, which they didn’t take and passes it off as “today”?
_switch360_ t1_j1iapgy wrote
Or the torrential rain that caused extensive runoff up river because of the snow melt.
_switch360_ t1_j1iasct wrote
Go north - there is a lot of snow up north
DirectorBeneficial48 t1_j1iezmx wrote
That's a lot of rain. Tons and tons of water. That's about 22 inches of snow, for comparison's sake.
Now understand that if you put out a bucket to capture rain water and got 1.8", everywhere got 1.8". The river got 1.8". All of the land next to it got 1.8". All of the land higher up got 1.8". All of the land further upriver got 1.8". All of the land at higher elevation upriver got 1.8".
Now do you get it?
Ilanaspax t1_j1igiho wrote
Newport is so boring/fragile that a fire truck generated two posts in this sub …. are you really that surprised?
FloatingWeight t1_j1igloz wrote
Ilanaspax t1_j1igm2l wrote
A day later?? What is there to know?
RosaKlebb t1_j1il6ew wrote
The PATH on curfew was some extra fucky shit.
bodhipooh t1_j1iobqe wrote
This is fear mongering, plain and simple.
There was never any danger or risk of the flooding DTJC. This picture was taken shortly before high tide. A few hours later the water had receded enough that you could see the rocks along the waterfront sea wall.
This “overflowing” lasted a whole lot of a couple of hours and this was the extent of it.
Complex_Difficulty t1_j1itrgp wrote
So this was yesterday?
HudsonRiverMonster t1_j1iulcb wrote
Confidently wrong. It rained and snowed a lot, this is storm water from the Hudson Valley flowing out into the sea. Combined with the tides, that drives up the river level much more than a dip in atmospheric pressure. This isn’t a tropical storm, and that’s not how tropical storms cause storm surge anyway.
KustyTheKlown t1_j1j0nze wrote
lol 'just' 1.8 inches of rain
if it were cold enough 1.8 inches of rain is like 2 feet of snow. that's a shitload of water to fall from the sky in a short period.
grimache83 t1_j1kewf3 wrote
My favorite terrible disaster movie!
_switch360_ t1_j1kezht wrote
Hey the Science guy wanted to sound smart about decompression of water to impress the chicks.
romanpieces t1_j1kra48 wrote
Give it a decade
HElGHTS t1_j1kyc6d wrote
I think the parent comment is using "compressed" to mean "being forced elsewhere" as opposed to the more typical "being forced into having less volume" which would be exactly what you're also saying. I don't condone imprecise language but I'll give the benefit of the doubt because it's pretty intuitive that water is hardly compressible.
Think about using a compression bandage or compression socks. You're not literally compressing, you're just squeezing the flesh and it goes elsewhere.
fruit__gummy t1_j1l5129 wrote
I think OPs use of the word “expand” means they were using your second definition of compress. Also don’t compression bandages cause your veins to compress/reduced cross sectional area?
Also they are just straight up wrong about this being the cause of the flooding, as other commenters have pointed out
cC2Panda t1_j1l5eth wrote
Is it flooding further into Paulus Hook. Left my car there before going to family for the holiday, wondering if I should worry about my car.
FinalIntern8888 t1_j1mgh6h wrote
Looks like my spot in McGinley Sq will be waterfront property in 5 years
MarketMan123 t1_j211pbj wrote
And this is why it was great to rent in downtown JC, but I would never in a million years have bought there...
The_Nomadic_Nerd t1_j1hp6q2 wrote
Can somebody explain why we’re getting floods? The weather report said it was just 1.8 inches of rain, yet we’re getting floods.