Spoke too soon again.
Major storms came through area this evening, dumping about 4 inches of rain per hour. We've had tornado warnings left and right for the last hour and a half. National Weather Service reports are saying we've had two touch down in the region, but so far, no visual sightings. It's dark now, so if any more activity comes this way, nobody's going to see a thing until it's right on top of them.
I have been in near-zero visibility rain before, but I don't think I've ever seen it sustained for so long, and on the heels of two days of steady rainfall.
Our staff meteorologist says a cold front just north of us will push it out, but that's not going to happen until tomorrow.
I had a spare shirt and pair of pants at work, but a nice, thick pair of socks would really come in handy right about now.

I feel ya! We've had a few of those here in Virginia. I get worried because I can see my back yard getting flooded and the water starts creeping toward my house. Fortunately my yard is huge so it takes a good while and a whole lotta rain to make the water come all the way to the house. The closest it's come is within aprox. 20ft. I live on a slight hill though so I'm thinking the water will just sorta go around the house and onto the street in front and run off.

Well, around here last week, we got a ton of rain from Fay. Amazing that these storms affect such a huge area of the country, from the tip of the Florida Keys to Arkansas, eastward to NC and VA...and depending on which side of it you're on, it can wreak you or just get you wet.

Lots of flooding here in low lying areas, even had to evacuate some areas. Last I saw on the news, somethin like 400 homes with flood damage.
This one apartment complex, the whole first floor is now condemned as inhabitable. Sadly, it's landlord is the county, I think it's either public housing or subsidized rent, it was knowingly in a flood plain, and naturally all the residents have no place to go AND no belongings other than what little they could salvage. Of course there's no flood insurance, so they are out of luck all around. You'd hope the county would help with relocation at least. It's a hot button here, there was a swarm of folks at the county commissioner's meeting last night.
Unfortunately the wheels of government turn way too slowly at times like this.

Anyway- our coastline is bracing for Hanna, and Ike is up to 145 mph....that's a serious storm. We'll be watching that one to see where it goes.

Glad to hear you've weathered the weather, Woody...

Later
TY

Thanks.
It all stopped around midnight.
So far, I haven't heard of any major problems in Chicot County, Ark. Washington County, where I live, is mostly okay. Some county roads are under water here and there, and I passed a couple of places where canals were full up to where they almost touched the bridges that pass over them.
Greenville, however, is a mess. Lots of streets are still under water, and several houses are flooded. The storm dumped an easy 10 inches of rain in about 4 hours, not counting what was already on the ground from the two days previous.
To the east, the clouds are breaking up and I can see sunlight for the first time since Monday. But dark clouds are still hanging over the city. We don't expect much more from that, but you never know.

Hey folks. This is my first post since coming back among the living.

Steve I know you're getting your wish for rain because it started raining here early this morning and has done nothing but rain harder as the day went on. It's still raining now and it's suppose to rain even harder later.

True that we too have brown lawns and such, too much at once will cause a run-off rather than soaking in. That run-off will help raise the level at all the marina's that aren't on the big lake. What ever the result, it's nice to see and hear the rain come down today; remnants of Gustav. Surprisingly my daughter in Gulf Shores said all they got was wind and rain with a few tornado warnings. No big deal there.

Gustav was a very strange animal.
Landfall on Monday. Here it is Thursday and not only is it just now breaking up in my area, but still causing problems north of us. We're almost 300 miles from the Gulf Coast. Before Katrina, NO hurricane caused major problems for this area. Katrina caused power outages and knocked down some trees, but all that was the day after it swept into New Orleans. By day 3 - after landfall - our weather was sunny and dry.
It started raining here the same day of Gustav's landfall, and it kept raining - lightly - until day 2 after landfall, when the bottom fell out and in a big way.
Our problems were worsened by the fact that the ground was already saturated.
August was an unusually wet month for us anyway, and then Fay brought a few days of rain, and we'd barely gotten over that when Gustav hit.
Anybody got a sponge?

My electricity just came back on after three days of being off. Gustav hit this area harder than any other storm. On Tuesday over 60% of the homes in Louisiana had no electric power. New Orleans came through it OK, but the most of the rest of the state is a huge mess. On Tuesday night there was an all-night heavy rain storm that caused wide-spread fooding on top off all the damage done the day before.

My old house has no damage, but a tree in my backyard uprooted and fell. My next-door neighbor lost part of his roof. The schools are closed until Monday, but some will not be able to open either because of damage or no electric power restored to that town. Peace and goodwill.

Wow...you all have had it tough. Now it's our turn here in VA. We are looking at a weekend of heavy ran and wind thanks to Hanna.

Its not just an American thang ! We have had rain in England now for the last 30 days and this weekend expect to get a whole months worth over 48 hours . Im expecting a plague of locust any day now !!
StewartAA

Interesting you say that, Stewart. When some of our residents complained about drainage ditches and culverts being clogged - it's true that some have mud and debris in the way - the mayor said there was nothing anybody could have done to prevent flooding with a storm of this magnitude: "It was an act of God."
She's right. Considering all the water that was on and in the ground from rain over the past month, we're lucky it wasn't much worse. About 300 families have either had to move out of their houses or suffered some interior damage. That's 300 households out of about 40,000 residents - not bad for a Storm of the Century.
Yes, by several official accounts, this was a 100-year event. Most people here have never seen anything like it, and few will ever see it agani.
And yet today, all is clear but a few low-lying areas and some neighborhoods where the water really has no place to go.