Hurricane Francis water

[Migs]

I tested the rainwater from the Hurricane Francis system pouring it's contents over Ottawa and found the pH to be 6.2.  Pretty decent for planted tanks.  I wonder what nasty things could be found in rainwater from the Atlantic?  
What do you think?
:?:

[artw]

Probably picked up some pollution from the U.S. on its way up.

[ambushman2j]

what I want to know, is how a hurricane which was travelling at 5 mph, and was heading west through florida towards texas ended up here like 2 days after it was passing through florida moving so slowly?? did it pull a u-turn and go to warp speed?? and I thought hurricanes were supposed to get your permission before coming in your house?..erm..no, that's vampires..nevermind, hrm.. my excersise room is all wet

[Migs]

The weather systems probably coincided so that Francis was kind of wedged in over the state. Hurricanes travel much faster than 8kph... Look at the distance Ivan is travelling over the Atlantic ocean and the Carribean sea. It's at least 40kph. Just a few days ago it hit Grenada and now it's bearing down on Jamaica; that's over 2500kms if you go in a straight line. I'm not a meteorologist but that's my understanding... Does J.J. Clarke read this?!? Let's ask him! hehe...

[Marc]

Hurricane Ivan is currently travellling at 20 km/h.  Different storms travel at different speeds and storms do change speeds too.

If I  recall correctly Frances was slower than average but I too suspect it picked up some speed once it was over land.

Hurricane Ivan info: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT4+shtml/102032.shtml?

[ambushman2j]

I watched alot of cnn coverage of francis and they said it was moving at 5 mph/kph which ever they use, and that infact at one point it wasn't moving at all, it was stalled..I guess it would have to have sped up to end up here like 2 days later, but I find that odd

[manytanks]

Well, unfortunately we picked up a rather large quantity of water from H. Francis when the sump pump failed to pump...and the basement was wall-to-wall under 6" of its 6.2 pH finest. <sigh> Did you know that carpets can actually float?

It's all bailed out now, and the floor at least is dry, but the next step is to cut out the bottom two feet of drywall all 'round, peel back the vapour barrier & wring out the sodden fibreglas batts. There's just no end to the fun.

But seriously, we've had no problems at all using about 95%  rainwater over the past year, although we're west of Kanata and assume we don't pick up whatever Ottawa contributes to air pollution.

Looking forward to collecting mucho rainwater from this next hurricane that's set to slam into the U.S. (just not in the basement).

[Migs]

Thanks for the link on hurricane Ivan.  I guess I was wrong...
So people often use rainwater for their tanks?

[manytanks]

>> So people often use rainwater for their tanks?

I don't think so. We use it because it's lower in pH than our tap water (well water), which is also high on one of the hardness scales as well as being extremely high in sulphur and which we're treating using a large chlorination system. Given all that, it's almost easier to collect rainwater...and snowmelt during the winter. We have no shortage of clean snow out here in the country during the winter.