Geeze Louise - I Need an Ark!!

[SlitherinSisters]

I was thinking about you this morning when I heard about all the rain you guys were getting! From the sounds of it the flood here in IA last year wasn't nearly that bad. Other than we lost a lot of houses because people think it's a good idea to build a house in a floodplain

[rabernet]

Well, most of us have received 6 inches of rain since midnight last night, and some areas have received FIFTEEN inches since midnight last night.

[SlitherinSisters]

Well, most of us have received 6 inches of rain since midnight last night, and some areas have received FIFTEEN inches since midnight last night.

Oh my goodness!!!! That's totally insane! Be safe!

[JLC]

Karl claims that all this rain came from six days that you guys just had. Is he telling me a story!

He's an hour east of me...so Pensacola may be stealing our rain as well. Seriously, we've had storms circling all around us for days and days, but it's like there's a weird bubble over my specific area and we just get teased. Out of the last two weeks or so of threatening rain, we've had one really good shower and that's it.

[AaronP]

I was sent home 4 hours early today because of the weather (I work 2nd shift they were afraid we wouldn't be able to leave). And I may not be able to go to work tomorrow either because of it! At least I have a hill infront and behind me so flooding isn't an issue. Justin Kobylka is an hour and 1/2 north of me and he doesn't have water right now.

[rabernet]

We don't close for weather - ever. Because our business relies heavily on our support group for restaurants, entertainment, convenience stores, etc - we all have to work.

On the rare occasion that Atlanta shuts down for snow - they rent blocks of hotel rooms close to the office.

With that said - I did leave work about 1.5 hours early and remote accessed into my computer when I got home - just finished what I wanted to get done for today (I'm covering my position and that of a co-worker fighting lung cancer right now).

[Seneschal]

Wow--that's all terrible. Be safe, Robin! I hope the rains slow down for you. I know where I am, we've been finally getting back into the normal Florida rains this summer--rain almost every afternoon. It's still not as much as we would normally have gotten (lol, like way back in the 90's...) but I think we're finally getting out of our dry spell. I know a month or so back we were in the same boat; we even had a road wash out about 6 miles from my house. There was just this place where the road completely stopped, and there was a ten foot drop to water, and about fifteen feet later the road was back again. Crazy stuff. Hopefully, that rain of yours will move on pretty quickly and not sit over you!

[dsirkle]

I saw this thread but didn't understand the extent of the damage until I saw the news this morning and saw that 6 people have been carried away by the water.

[Jyson]

Robin, tell the skies above Atlanta to give Florida her rain back! LOL

No No! Don't tell the skies anything pertaining to Fl. Robin! We (most of us) down here are enjoying the lack of rain...for once.

Its getting serious up there, but it'll clear up; hopefully soon, hopefully today.


And once it does clear up and things start to dry, yall will have mosquitoes to greet you.

[ZinniaZ]

Robin, are you still above water? I saw the reports on my horse forum and people are having trouble evacuating themselves and their animals. Are you still hanging in?