My plan for the apacalyse is called "Armageddonouttahere".
Chris
>
>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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