In Northwest Wake, we’re seeing the heaviest rain of the day right now. The tornado watch for Wake County and East has been extended until 7 pm.Just a really rainy 18 hours here in Holly Springs. It was a very steady soaking rain, but we didn't see torrential downpours where I am like we have from multiple thunderstorms this season. Very little wind either. The sun is out as I type this.
The ditch in front of my house is lined with rocks, so it looked like Roaring Rapids earlier. But its not bad now, the rain really tapered off in the last 2 hours and the sky is lightening up.Open stormwater ditch in the backyard is at capacity at the top of its banks after that last band, but it draws down about a foot an hour if everything else in the chain is flowing. So far, so good.
The wetness has ensued. Everybody good, or have we broken out the john boats?
I love the "my truck can do anything" guys that inevitably learn lessons in this kind of storm. There's a backed up curb inlet on my street and some clown with a lifted Ford just hydroplaned himself into a stop sign like a moron ... thanks to like 8" of water ... while I was walking the dog.
A few months after Fran came through, I was talking with the lady who cleaned our office, her brother, and her son and we were discussing Fran. I noted that I saw the top of an RX-7 sticking out of the water on Atlantic Ave. just north of Crabtree Creek. I noticed the son drop his head and say "Yeah, that was me." It was a good thing Mary was there, because I didn't use any colorful language about the situation.I love the "my truck can do anything" guys that inevitably learn lessons in this kind of storm. There's a backed up curb inlet on my street and some clown with a lifted Ford just hydroplaned himself into a stop sign like a moron ... thanks to like 8" of water ... while I was walking the dog.
On the map I saw last night, it looked like SW Wake got about double with NW Wake had. Very odd.Almost double that just down the road in Apex.. 8.61" and counting during this morning's activity. Basement wall seeping on a hairline crack that until this point was pretty dry; gonna have to get the concrete crack injection guys out here again.