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It Just Wouldn’t Stop

25 October 2008 3 Comments

It started raining this morning in Charleston, and it’s still raining a bit now.

Not that there’s anything wrong with rain, but when you combine a day’s worth with flood-prone areas and a high tide that doesn’t help the situation, things get soggy quickly.

When I walked out to my car a little while ago to run an errand, by the time I got to the car, I was standing in four inches of water.  My tennis shoes will likely be dry again in early 2010.  A friend of mine from church told me she tried to walk her puppy in her backyard and they both nearly ended up going for a swim.  And speaking of church, the front yard of mine is a lake.  I’m hoping that no water made its way into the building itself, but there was no way to get to the building to find out.

And local weather guru Jared reports that we’ve shattered the old record today with more than six inches of rainfall.

I’m hoping for drier weather tomorrow.

3 Comments »

  • Wil said:

    Just be glad it wasn’t snow…depending on the temperature, that much liquid could equal as much as 3 feet of snow to be shoveled.

    # 25 October 2008 at 4:03 am
  • Donna W said:

    I like rain, but not THAT much rain!

    # 25 October 2008 at 6:42 am
  • Jamie Ford said:

    I grew up in Seattle and thought I knew what rain was, but it’s more of a perpetual drizzle there. Then I spent a few weeks in Arkansas and got caught in a flash flood…now THAT’s rain!

    # 26 October 2008 at 1:52 pm

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