Our problem is moving water taking out the approaches to bridges. The bridges will be fine, but there’s no way of getting to them until the approach roads are repaired.

When I lived in San Diego, every time there was a signicant rain event someone died from not paying attention.

Stay dry. I have to form up some raking parties.

Well, I am on the top of a big hill at a higher elevation in Virginia (on the NC border), and I didn’t even get water in my basement during Florence. BUT, I was basically housebound because of the flash flooding and rivers overflowing their banks. And that’s okay, I certainly can’t complain. I have a cousin in the Fayetteville area that lost her house and most of her possessions during Florence. They got something like 24″ in a 3 day period! Yikes.

We lose someone up here almost every year that thinks they can cross over the flowing water on the road. They don’t get the difference between simply rising waters vs. moving water which starts destabilizing the road base. It comes crashing down these mountainsides and creates new waterways on its rush to a lower level. I don’t have to go out if I don’t want to. I work for myself and make the rules, so I don’t do it.

I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings, but the forecasts are all pointing to Florence survivors getting another drenching while they are waiting for insurance money to fix their roofs.

I’m looking at it the hurricane and it looks like you are on the edge of the major winds. If it moves ever so slightly west, you could be in the middle of it. Sending good thoughts your way!

Juanita, you need to track it because it is going to dump more water on the Carolinas and Virginia. If you are on the East side of the ‘ridge’ things are going to get damp. It is forecast to remain a tropical storm as transits the land on its way to the Atlantic.

Stay safe and dry.