I am assuming that we will have an official weather post sometime later this week, but after the Flood of the Century here in Blacksburg today, rain is on the brain
Saturday we're supposed to be getting hit with the effects of tropical storm/hurricane Joaquin... like inches and inches of rain.
Does this bode well for our gameplan? Or does it make you more worried, because of how poorly our defense showed up in the rain against that team in the eastern part of North Carolina?
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The model for Myrtle Beach ranges from 1 inch between Wednesday and Sunday up to 7 inches in that same time frame. I really hope Blacksburg is not looking at that.
Well, it's supposed to rain ALL week. 27 roads are closed for flooding right now, and it's only supposed to continue.
The jury is still out on how much Joaquin is supposed to impact us, but I've heard close to 4 or 5 inches of rain on Friday night/Saturday morning alone. Take into account the other 3 or so inches we're supposed to get Wednesday-Friday, it's gonna be very very wet here
I don't think Joaquin will affect the game. I'm in the OBX, and if current predictions are any indications, we will seeing the brunt of it sunday night into monday morning, while getting some rain fri night and saturday morning from the outskirts of the storm. Hopefully this front coming through will push the storm east, but we'll see.
Was at the OBX all last week...we only had one beach day and one pool day.
Worst weather I've ever had down there. But better than being at work!!
Enjoy!
No joke man, last week was ugly. Got a few days of sunshine since Sunday, but looking like that's going to change this weekend
Not to mention when we had a break in the rain the wind was too
rough to go fishing!! UGH
Keeping an eye on this storm though, latest I've seen shows it as a cat 2, and in my vicinity (kill devil hills) sunday morning, time to clean up the yard and tie down the grill!
Be safe fellow Hokie! I must be honest...extremely jealous you live there. :)
I've only been here since December, so this'll be my first hurricane as a resident here. I've been watching out for jobs here ever since I graduated, and 7 years later it finally happened. Love it
If I ever get the opportunity I am so there. But I think I like it better down
S-12 in Buxton or Avon. :)
Yeah, it's real nice down there. wouldn't want to do that commute every day for work though!
Used to go down to Rodanthe every year for vacation. Still probably going to start doing that, finding a nice oceanfront place just past the main tourist season when the prices drop, down in that area.
Surprisingly, and disappointingly, between work, and having a baby on our hands, we can probably count on both hands how many times we made it to the beach this summer
Based on recent history, one can only assume that poor weather = poor play. Our greatest assets and offensive weaponry involve stretching the field, passing and getting guys in space. Defensively, it worries me to think our under-sized lineman will be nuetralized by the muck and mire against those big hog-mollies. I'm hoping we catch a few breaks and guys stop the senseless penalties.
Yes, but we're getting more experience with this wet stuff. And never count Loeffler out as a tactician. Look for Tim Settle as a fullback in the Walrus formation.
He'll be ready.
Fud, you continue to crack me up. Thanks, man, and keep it up.
If this guy hasn't committed yet, get him on campus this weekend. Might be his type of weather.
He will be a great nose tackle.
Im concerned, like VERY concerned. our undersized Dline coupled with the fact that their running back is huge and our LB corps has yet to show me anything to prove me preseason concerns otherwise says we might be in for a doozy. The passing game isnt gonna be able to bail us out and there will be big plays as corners slip but also drops much like last game. I expect a pretty high scoring affair but ultimately in games like these I think the better running team/ team that controls the line of scrimmage team has a significant advantage.
Also we're talking nearly half an inch of rain this week with another 6" this weekend. Course the Euro loves to blow its load all over big precipitation events, I'd still predict an easy 4-5 inches of rain. Travel safe hokies!
Well there is no excuse this week. They've got outdoor practice space and it is raining this everyday this week in Blacksburg. Plenty of opportunity to practice in the rain, long snapping for punts/FG's, QB/Center exchanges, QB/RB exchanges, throwing, catching, coverage drills, and ummmm, what am I forgetting...TACKLING.
I know we don't want to risk injury, but they better do some drills in the rain this week.
I'm as optimistic as they come, and I am confident the D will rebound, and with Searels back, I am confident we will run the ball well. I don't think Mot runs nearly as much, and I think one of our RB's makes a clear statement with his play and takes over with a HUGE day. We will win this game!
I don't think you understand how much it is raining here...
There was so much rain today, the outside field was completely underwater.
Live nearby, and can 2nd.. it has rained for a week straight, flood warnings are up all over VA
There's some great documentation on TKP twitter.
Exhibit A
To be fair I should note that the photo comes courtesey of VT Police on Facebook.
Ah, I finally got a lakeside seat.
I heard it was a lot of rain, but you're right, that looks pretty insane. Well hopefully they can find a way to practice and simulate a bit of the conditions.
Retractable roof anyone?
Alltime daily record for rain yesterday.
And nearly major flooding at Roanoke River @ Walnut Ave.
so it seems the end of september is a wet, wet time of year
Yeah, the A&M game was 9/18 too.
We used to joke to the Freshman on move-in day. It was always sunny and bright. Told them to take a pic of the sun, because they won't see it for some time afterwards. September rolled in and brought the rain with it.
So Worsham Field can supposedly handle 16 inches of rain an hour. Any idea what the playing surface looks like right now?
Wet grass.
It's a green surface with some lines drawn on it, various poles and orange pylons sticking out, all surrounding by a bunch of places to sit.
sounds remarkably similar to Scott Stadium on any given Saturday
Some Fridays, too.
true..i mean really..it looks pretty much the same regardless of the day
Actually, it may not be green.
Speaking as someone who marched several pregame and halftime shows wearing white pants, I always came off the field with green stains, and it wasn't just typical grass stains. I'm pretty sure the green is paint.
but seriously it seems to be holding up well.
OT Rant, but related to field conditions:
VT has beautiful field. What amazes me, is that one of the richest NFL franchises installs this p.o.s.:
Which ultimately led to this:
I do not know how expensive it is to install the hi-tech field like the one VT has. But putting hundreds of million dollar assets on a mud pit is probably the 2nd dumbest thing you can do. (First, is obviously playing your million dollar assets after injury, and the known level of risk of severe damage.) Well, at least he had his priorities straight - spend money to increase seating by 20%, but do not install more restrooms or food service.
They've been taking OUT seats for the past several years.
https://twitter.com/vtequipment/status/648904861132685312
Yea you can't practice on that field.
But you can play on this one:
"Another addition to the facility is the turf and drainage system that was replaced in the summer of 2001 as Tech became the first collegiate football team to have a new state-of-the-art GreenTech ITM natural Bermuda grass sports field system. It provides excellent drainage with irrigation lines and a vacuum system that can handle up to 16 inches of rain an hour."
I was watching the A&M game and Trev Alberts calls OOC games pre-season games. Beating a dead horse at this point I know.
that was my first game I went to as a freshman. We painted up and everything. Sat at the top of east stands at the 50. Good memories...
That hurricane aided onside kick at 2:10 was nuts. It rained so hard that game the maroon dye in my hat had bled all over my head, so much so that people thought I was bleeding.
At around the 20:14 mark you can see great line blocking but K Jones beats the LB one on one to pick up a 4th and 1.... We picked that up like it was nothing....Makes me sad!
This game is one of my favorite memories from my days at tech. We tailgated all day in the rain and were freezing and soaked by kickoff and still screamed our faces off. That was a hell of a time.
i remember being in the stands for that one, sophomore year. That was a cold wet night
Just watched the first half. Man Kevin Jones was somethin
That Dave Williams may be onto something...
NWS is saying over 4.3 inches of rain yesterday in Blacksburg.
4.3 inches is something we can handle but, the true story on that is the complete saturation of the ground and the runoff into the waterways that are already full.
Trees are starting to fall with no real wind, just the complete saturation of the soil turning it into loose dirt unabale to take any stress.
streets are closed due to high water and mudslides are starting all over the place.
We get some respite today, I'm going out as being inside for so long in all this dark rainy day is beginning to have some depressing effects.
I need to get out to relieve it before it starts to rain again.
Over 4 inches of rain in 20 hours Blacksburg can handle? Wow that's impressive drainage systems. Yea the rain totals for the last 7-10 days and now going forward is going to be something to worry about. They were talking flash floods this weekend all over the mid Atlantic from a 1/2 punch from two different systems.
Wonder if they would postpone the game?
apparently the field can handle 16 inches / hour of rain so I don't think the game is postponed unless it's thundering
The field can certainly take it but they will also consider safety issues on campus and fans driving to the campus.
Of course lightning as well.
where does thunder come from?
I was acknowledging your thunder note, not correcting it.
sorry. couldn't tell
It's the Internet and all the difficulties that come with non-verbal soundbite communications.
troof
If it's raining 16 inches an hour the field may be the only place not under water at VT.
I agree. I don't think it will even come close to that much rainfall in that sort of time frame. My point is if the game is postponed, it won't be because of field conditions. If they deem the roads impassible and it's such an issue that the teams and fans can't make it to the stadium there may also be a state of emergency for the area. I don't really see that happening, but I'm not in BBurg right now so I don't know how bad it actually is.
Flooding everywhere in the county and counties surrounding it, mostly due to high creeks and rivers.
Small break today but, it'll start raining again tonight and off/on until Saturday or Friday evening at which time we're holding our breath to see if the Hurricane Joaquin (expected to be cat 2 by this Thursday afternoon) does what most of the tracks show and make landfall and travel into Eastern/Central VA.
thanks for update. I hope to make it down for the game this weekend and if the rain interferes with my travel I'll be pretty upset...
Landfall should be sometime Sunday or Monday.
Even the golf tournament was affected up at Primland, on TOP of the hill. Too much rain over a couple of days.
Only reason to do so...And Corso isn't scheduled to be there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vpCy_bUwHk
Man, would this be a nightmare. Pitt has no more bye weeks, and with the mix of Thursday/Friday games for each team, it would be really tough to find a date to re-schedule. If it were OOC, they'd just nix it if it were too bad to play on Saturday. But since it's in-conference, we'd probably be watching Tuesday Night Football or something later in the season.
a day late and a dollar short but great minds think alike.
This weather is causing me to have flashbacks to the Miami game in 2009. That blocked punt though.
My freshman year was 2009. That game was fun, we would stand out instruments up so the mouthpiece faces up (about an inch diameter circle) and every time we tried to play there would just be water coming out, no sound.
Oh and I had to try and dry my clothes off in the dryers at West AJ, which of course take at least two runs to get your clothes to moderately damp.
Yeah, those dryers were pretty bad. I would do half loads instead of full to get things to actually dry.
It'd be nice if laundry machines had been free, but there would definitely have been people who would abuse it.
My brand-new iPhone lost it's life on that day..
Blacksburg High School is moving EVERYTHING (Parade, Dance, Game) involved with homecoming week to a couple weeks from now, based on the predictions of at least 4 inches of rain from a storm not related to Joaquin.
Best case scenario right now is those 4 inches of rain on Friday night/Saturday morning
Worst case that is being talked about it Joaquin making an impact farther inland, and Blacksburg gets hit with around 8-12 inches of rain starting Friday and ending Sunday.
tl;dr- Bring ponchos, and maybe a small canoe
So it's the rainbow effect game?
We're actually debuting new helmets again
Representing all the ponchos in the stands!
(Although props to the concession areas for not jacking up poncho prices during rainy games.)
Rainbow Warriors. Kind of like them.
Oh for the days when rainbows were just rainbows...and I only say that because rainbows are cool, don't get me wrong.
If the weather permits this game to be played, we win it. Period. I had a vision. Thank you Jose.
Edit: credit where credit is due...that's Jose Cuervo. Gold. Why would he lie?
Because he's an evil SOB that hates you.
At least that's what I kept hearing the little voice in my head tell me most Sunday mornings in Blacksburg...and Saturdays...and sometimes Fridays....and a few Thursdays. And that one Tuesday morning....
Only a single Tuesday? You sir, are a model citizen
I always find it best to confirm what Jose tells me with the Captain. if they say the same thing then I know it's true.
Cuervo Gold doesn't lie.... ever. Game over.
UPDATE: I just got the briefing on the latest for the hurricane for the fire dept. If you live in New Jersey, NYC or the DELMARVA area start preparing NOW. The storm is currently a cat 3, while it is doubtful it will get that far north as one it will still bring rain and lots of it, to areas already with lots of rain. Be prepared, take time now to come up with a plan and buy any needed supplies.
Yeah, NOAA is running more models at 8 am. I'll have an update shortly thereafter. Not sure I'm going to get a chance to post...I have to go to Annapolis today...but I'll update if I can.
I live between Ocean City and Salisbury, and work in Cambridge. The surf report this morning has the winds climbing to 40 knots by midnight tonight; and that has NOTHING to do with the hurricane. Surf building from 9' to 14' come Sunday, and up to 20' on Monday. Our issue is going to come from 2 things...water impounding up the Bay and not being able to get out. And the wind blowing for some time, with 5+inches of rain BEFORE the hurricane. At which time, the wind will pick up and could turn 90-180 degrees from the previous few days. That's when we lose trees and thus power.
Crisfield was under 5' of water during Sandy and that wasn't even close to a direct hit. We ended up with around 3" of rain from that one. If we get 5+5, with it going up the Bay, we could see another Irene. Or Hazel, the one that created the inlet between Ocean City and Assateague.
UPDATE: If you live in SC/NC expect ALOT of rain, Charleston may see 10-12 inches the next 7 days if not more, some local totals could be 12-14 inches.
While most fans will probably look something like this:
There will still be many overly intoxicated fans enjoying the rain
Or this...
You call it rain, I call it free hangover prevention.
Well, when I was at Tech, it was a duty free game since our instruments were put away and we got to see a show like this right in front of us for free.
Seeing a lot of people posting that hurricane joaquin will have a large effect in the game Saturday. That is not looking like that is the case. It will be offshore wind and rain Sat, the effects of the hurricane at the earliest will be Sat night but more than likely Sunday into Monday IF it effects VA at all. We should know more in the next hour.
I don't think its the hurricane we have to worry about on Saturday, but from what i'm reading is all of that rain we got earlier this week is going to get pushed back westward into us again. When the hurricane starts moving north and out to sea its going to affect all the weather in our region.
http://www.weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/hurricane-joaquin-5-changes...
Look at #4
Joaquin is gonna effect VB area and eastern shore. That being said the tech game isn't going to be impacted...currently in class but I'll leave a nice little write-up on it here in a little bit. Friend made a very interesting case that it might reach cat 4 or cat 5 strength and hug the shore/stay out in the Atlantic. The coast and the mid Atlantic are going to get soaked this weekend one way or the other. As hokiefireman said above it has absolutely 0 to do with the hurricane. More so with a big system coming through. The thing that had a lot of people concerned was that the ground, still saturated from last weekend, wouldn't be able to hold much water and there would be tons of flooding, throw in a hurricane and you get more water and on the coast line a massive tide. (Storm surge....which interestingly enough has the highest fatality numbers of any weather related event) any who for now I'd say jersey baton down the hatches....don't be shocked and don't hate on meteorologists if it stays off coast
I should rephrase that. The rain does have to do with the hurricane. Just not as a direct portion of the hurricane. If we get rain its not because Joaquin is over head
Not really, the rain the east coast is getting is coming whether joaquin is offshore or not. Especially today through Saturday.That came across wrong, I'm just seeing a lot of people, not just on TKP, who think this whole system of weather is the hurricane coming ashore. I'll await your in depth weather report.
But its getting fired up due to Joaquin's proximity, trust me here
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Im sure you'll get more into it but I read that the rain Friday and Saturday is the front that just passed over and was out to sea intensifying. It is now getting rebounded or sucked back into the mainland because of the hurricane. So the rain during the game won't be a hurricane. The hurricane will be off the coast of Georgia at the time of our game or out to sea
UPDATE! I'll have all the in depth stuff around 5ish, up and running but hurricane is steering off the coast and into the Atlantic now....the euro was right once again, and once again I look like a damn fool for thinking this would finally be the time it'd be wrong
What data does the euro model rely on that makes it so much better than the others? You would think with US weather balloons being launched so often the US models would be better.
http://www.energyblogs.com/weather/index.cfm/2014/1/6/Differences-Betwee...
couldnt tell you exactly why it does it, but heres what it does, I really want to take the time some day to take apart the Euro code and learn it
This weather is making me seriously depressed. My fellow VT friends who were planning on coming this weekend are bailing. I have kept my emotions in check for the most part regarding the ECU loss. But the whole not letting a team beat you twice thing is very real, or at least it is when it comes to fans and their willingness to come to this game anyways. If we had won last weekend all my buddies wouldn't be bailing on coming to the game this week, guaran-freakin-teed. I am getting depressed more an more by the minute, someone help!!!!!!!!
watch some soccer. football isn't everything
Poppycock!! That's just sheer and utter BLASPHEMY, I say.
This. Did. Not. Help.
Free adult beverages and food at my tailgate. Lot 9. My group will probably be the only ones out there!
God bless you sir! I will be out in the chicken hill lot given the rain gods hell!!!!
Me too!
I'm super excited for my trip home on Sunday morning. Have to drop off my cousin in Richmond before heading back to DC. Hopefully I'm outta Blacksburg early enough to outrun it.
Just announced from VT Athletics Twitter feed, the White-Effect game has been moved to this weekend against Pitt!