KEH hows the flooding in your area?

Just wondering how things are?

Or anyone in the Carolinas?

Gary

We are fine in the northwest corner of the state. Just some downed trees and blown up shingles.
Lower Piedmont to the coast appears to be really bad.
KEH is near Spartanburg where I believe a bridge got washed out.
Maybe he will post about that.
Richard in NW SC

I'm fairly close to him, Sprtanburg had some flooding, but I don't know to what extent, I just know there was some flooding, but that was before the "1000 Year Storm" hit. Locally, we had some roads washed, but not many. Just south of us, there was more flooding, and more roads and bridges washed out, but nothing like Columbia and Charleston. Getting a little tired of the media making out like the whole state is flooded!!!

Hi, Gary,

I got about 10 inches of rain total over several days. The issue was that a low pressure area spun off the hurricane that did not hit the East coast and headed across the East-West center of the state, right over Charleston and Columbia, also over me but we didn't get the huge amounts of rain they got further East. Saturday night and early Sunday it rained all night and I had 3.5 inches in the rain gauge.

Our church has design problems dating from when it was built in 1920 which causes water to come under the church. The furnace is in a lower area about 8 x 8 feet and is lower that the rest of the under the church area. There is a sump pump in the furnace pit. Under heavy rain conditions that pump can fail, resulting in a flooded ruined furnace. After one such experience we had another pump placed up stream. On one occasion it failed also. Saturday i checked that pump and it was working. When I got to church it was not working and the water was going to the furnace pit. Previously I had bought another pump, a sumergeable. as a back up but it was not in a pit. I operated it manually and got the water under control. I had visions of operating it all night, but another guy who knew more than I did got the other pump working. (hung up float) Rain stopped, all dry. Church has stone walls and was build up to a certain level and dirt filled in on one side. That side has down spouts from the roof emptying into very old red terra cota(sp) pipe which carries the water to a couple of junction boxes and then off the property to a road ditch. My thought was that the pipe was stopped up. Had a snake with a camera run in ther Monday. One area blocked with dirt and some roots. Not a complete blockage but we are going to have the pipe jetted out, yesterday, but no show yet. That is not going to solve the problem because the water that accumulates in the fill dirt is coming in under and through the stone walls below the red pipe.

Charleston and Columbia: Charleston and other areas along the coast got up to 20 inches of rain. I 26 into Charleston closed. Streets flooded, in one case an alligator was swimming in the street. The section of town along the harbor is maybe a foot above high tide ordinarily.

Columbia's situation has gotten the most attention. I commented in another forum on YT forum something about the State's river system that was causing the problems.

To begin with they are not large to someone who is used to the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. I'm on a ridge between two rivers, each one of which is roughly the size of the Iowa river, as I recall seeing it. That is the river that goes through Iowa City, isn't it? By the time the waters reach Columbia several more rivers that size have joined a couple of larger rivers. The Broad river and the Saluda join at Columbia to form the Congaree river. The Congaree's normal flood stage is 115 feet, it is now expected to crest at 125 feet. In addition, several small dams have burst in the Columbia area adding to the problems. One was in an upscale subdivision, Forest Acres, which was started over 50 years ago when I was in Columbia in school. AFIK the two lakes in that area were housing development lakes built so the developers could sell lake front lots. I don't know anything about the others.

Pictured on the news was a National Guard helicopter dropping a huge sand bag in a break on the Columbia canal. I'm hazy on the details, but the Columbia canal was built in the 19th century so there could be water transportation from the Congaree River to the Broad river. In thelate 19th or early 20th century the canal water was used to generate electric power and maybe still does. Now AFIK Columbia gets its water supply from the canal so a break is not good from that standpoint. The reason for the canal was that there are rocks and shoals in the Broad river and the Congaree at Columbia. There are no more shoals or falls from there to the Atlantic ocean, a distance of about 125 miles. Below Columbia the Congaree and the Wateree rivers join to make the Santee, which is a large river by any standard. All the river names mentioned ending in "ee", plus the Saluda River, and named for Indian tribes that once lived along their banks.

I am in central NC it rained a record 12 days straight. 11 of those days totaled 3" you could not ask for a better nice slow rain... One of those days we got 5" in 24 hr. it did not cause any local issues other than the wind taking down some trees and power.

The farmers with crops in the fields will take a hit peanuts tobacco etc, it ruined my tomato's.

Fire ants :shock:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...ape-flooding-south-carolina-article-1.2388162

We are in a small community about 15miles from Down town Charleston. We are close to the Airport which I think recorded 17.5 inches of rain from the storm. I do not know what time frame they used. Here at the house I emptied the rain gage Thursday evening at about 6.00 and between then and Monday morning we had 19 inches more or less. At times it rained over an inch an hour. Just a total blur at 75 ft. We were lucky in that we had almost no wind. We were wet right here in the week and a half before this all started so my worry was trees simply tipping over. Many of the trees here are shallow rooted to begin with so will uproot very easily when it gets so wet and windy. We have many areas in as its called the low country that are flooded to various degree's Where RBinsc lives has flooding and he mentioned so water in his garage at one point. We are for the most part ok here and it looks like the community's are pulling together to get cleanup started.

You must be close to Hannahan.

In this part of WNC we got plenty of rain but it came at a rate that was manageable. Wind was minimal. I don't know the official total but there were plenty of folks here reporting 8 in of rain or more. Just over the weekend.

(quoted from post at 18:51:06 10/07/15) You must be close to Hannahan.

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es about a quarter mile from the high school