I feel so sorry for you guys... and just a little guilty that we missed
(the first) bullet.
Hope you all stay safe.
On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 3:24 PM, Tina Manley <tmanley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Columbia is under water. Lots of the city is closed and some neighborhoods
> and shopping centers have water to the roofs. Cathy is in a high area and
> her basement is flooded. They have turned off the water, power has been
> off, and nobody is traveling anywhere! All of this is only going to get
> worse. That's why I have an Apocalypse Room:
> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/160763277 That's from July.
> Every
> shelf is now full and boxes of full jars are stacked everywhere!
>
> Tina
>
> On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Chuck Norcutt <
> chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > wrote:
>
> > It's 2:45 pm Sunday afternoon. Add 2" more. Still coming down and the
> > pond did overflow several hours ago. The little bridge the stream passes
> > under couldn't take the volume and is now flowing across the road a few
> > inches deep. This has put the water level higher than some of the street
> > drains so water is accumulating in parts of the street with nowhere to
> go.
> >
> > The good news is that Collins Creek (which drains the little stream)
> which
> > empties into the Waccamaw River is flowing well. It's a tidal creek, the
> > tide is going out and the water is flowing briskly. But it's also a
> couple
> > hundred feet wider than it was a few days ago and is making wet swamp
> where
> > there had been only rather dry swamp before.
> >
> > Also of note, our two little alligators have returned. Putting on my
> > gator-brain hat I suspect their thought process is something like this:
> > "Hey, this rain and flooding stuff is a damned nuisance. Let's go back
> to
> > our old pond. It was a lot nicer over there."
> >
> > Sort of like our old cat Smokey. If it was raining outside when you
> tried
> > to let him out the front door he would immediately go to the back door
> and
> > wait to be let out there. It was always raining there too but he never
> > learned.
> >
> > Chuck Norcutt
> >
> >
> > On 10/4/2015 12:28 PM, ChrisB wrote:
> >
> >> Best of luck with staying dry, Chuck. It sounds wet there!
> >>
> >> Chris
> >>
> >>> On 4 Oct 2015, at 17:17, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I've measured 15.5" between about 7:30 Friday morning until 11:20
> Sunday
> >>> morning. It's still coming down hard. The pond behind the house has
> risen
> >>> a couple of feet above it's relief drain and is now threatening to over
> >>> flow the riprap of the emergency overflow drain. Both drains carry
> water
> >>> into the stream that runs through the woods behind my house. I hope the
> >>> stream continues to flow freely.
> >>>
> >>> I'm about 28 feet above sea level and there is no street flooding
> around
> >>> here that I'm aware of. Not so with the highways and towns along the
> shore
> >>> line.
> >>>
> >>
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