Holy moly, I heard that parts of NC got walloped by that tropical storm, any members from NC here? Check in and give us some updates!

Been there , done that . Lifechanging ..

Further inland, it’s been gross, steady wet days, but not that bad. Down in the coastal and eastern areas, different story I believe.

I have family down near coast. About three feet deep water in neighborhood.
Fortunately, they are on a slight hill.

All of the largest rainfall amounts were in the coastal areas. I am Northeast and about 20 miles or so from the center of Raleigh, and we only got around four inches or so. That still makes for some crappy days, but nothing compared to the amounts at the beaches.

August 2016 local area received a reported 33 inches of rain in approx 2 1/2days... We live in a no flood zone but received 41inches of flood waters in our house.... Most of Livingston Parish (county) and parts of surronding parishes(counties) were flooded....Yes the 1000 year flood...................................drill sgt.

I remember Hurricane Matthew back in 2016. My son called and asked me to come down and get his family out of Fort Bragg because he was not allowed to leave.

Then there was another natural disaster where there was no gas and I had to go down there again to get them. I remembered as soon as I entered NC, every hour I would stop and top off my tank just in case. The closer I got to Bragg, I saw gas stations packed with cars. Grabbed the family and drove back to Ohio.

I don't know what it's called now, but I will always call it Fort Bragg.

Friends in Wilson County report that their septic quit working because the ground is so saturated. Roads flooded (normal in som places). Business closed because workers can leave their neighborhoods.

My grandpa lives in Bolivia, NC which is about 20 miles as the crow flies from the ocean in Brunswick County. He is 91 years old and was there for Hurricane Hazel and all the other storms. He said he has never seen it like this down there.

He owns a horse farm and the riding ring was underwater. The stalls in the barns were full of water and it was like a river running down the aisle of the barn.

The water has already started to recede but it is a king tide down there. So until the ocean recedes there is no where for all that water to go. The ocean has to recede then the river has to empty out followed by the ditches and finally the areas that drain into the ditches.

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Originally posted by drill sgt:
August 2016 local area received a reported 33 inches of rain in approx 2 1/2days... We live in a no flood zone but received 41inches of flood waters in our house.... Most of Livingston Parish (county) and parts of surronding parishes(counties) were flooded....Yes the 1000 year flood...................................drill sgt.

I'm literally a stone's throw away from you . 49 inches in my house . Evacuated by airboat that pulled up to my front door . Like I said , lifechanging .

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Originally posted by selogic:
Been there , done that . Lifechanging ..

It is, 30 years here, plenty of Hurricanes and tropical storms until Ian dropped 22 inches of rain in CFL, ranging from 13 to 23 across the area flooding the neighborhood for a few days.

A comparison of the flooded area, we were lucky, others were not so lucky.

We needed some rain in my neck of the woods here in NC but the timing blows.

Of course this rain comes when I am supposed to demo a GasGas race bike. The trails are all soaked after months with almost no rain.