Didn't think it would be this bad

RBnSC

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I was working downtown today when it started to rain. This street was dry eighteen minutes earlier.
Ron
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What the heck is going on over there??????????

I heard on the radio today there was a storm down by the Bahamas that was expected to head NE and stay off shore. So I did not worry about it anymore.
Then I come home and read this.
From what I am seeing you may escape the winds as the storm stays offshore but you will get the rain.

What is the local news been saying?
Reason I ask is my son lives just west of Ft Bragg in N.C.
 
Looked bad around me, here in Concord, all day. Fortunately it didn't start to rain until about 11PM. Given that it has rained most of the day, every day, for the last several days, it wasn't much of a surprise. Now it looks like they are calling for around 5+ inches in this area. I figure with the ground already saturated it's going to be a good one. I believe they are calling for once in 1000 year floods. I've only been out here for a little over 25 years, but I remember about 18 years or so ago, we had the worst flood I'd ever seen. If what they forecast is true, I guess I'll get a chance to see another one.
 
Some areas of Charleston are so low that flooding happens if there is an extreme high tide. This had gone on for ever it seems. Charleston is built on a peninsular swamp. A great deal of money has been spent to build an aquarium a ball park, a huge waterfront park and many other things as part of the long term Mayors legacy. The flooding problems that the city had when he was elected many many years ago still exist today. In fairness he has systematically blamed the federal government and nnalert in general for a lack of funding to fix these problem. All the while advocating a number of pet projects. It needs to be said that they are working on flood water holding areas deep under Charleston to contain these flood waters as we speak. Since many areas flood simply as a result of rising tidal water and not rain so I don't see much relief in their plan. There is no end to the volume of water at high tide so there will never be enough storage. Well I guess that's my rant, Charleston was built in a swamp on pluff mud and continues to sink or appears to. With the continued dredging of an ever deeper shipping channel the pluff mud will continue to slowly squeeze out from under the city and back into the harbor and the shipping channel. Charleston is like many other coastal city's in that much of it should never have been built on in the first place.
Angle Iron
 

Looks familar, Rb, where is it?

In Spartanburg county we had a down pour of rain Wednesday night in the city of Spartanburg, 4 inches in a short time. One death. A culvert washed out and a car went in. A car lot was flooded(Dodge agency). Most of us have had several days of clouds and light rain. Not much other downpours. Last night I emptied the weeks accumulation of rain from the rain gauge, I think 2.6 inches. There was rain last night and this morning I had 1.6 inches in the gauge. It has done the light rain routine all day. The good part is that it rained slowly enough, mostly, that thr rain soaked in. We were getting dry so it was welcome. For those of you in the flat lands, There are almost no areas that should flood since we have hilly land. I am almost on the highest point between 2 rivers.

KEH
 

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