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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