re: Tropical Storm Debby - Flooding Threat Slowly Shifting NE

I guess you could say we got ……

Lucky


here in Charleston

Yep, looks like what’s left of the center of circulation will go just north of us.

Roanoke is going to get dicked

The night that H Camille came up from the Gulf and dropped at least 36 inches of rain on the Blue Ridge mountains, the soils became liquid and roared down the mountains and killed a lot of unsuspecting folks.
A prof up n Pennsylvania recognized some of the after effects and wrote about other places along the front of the mountains were similar slides had happened centuries and millenia ago.

Where I was we didn't get that much rain, and our hydrology class went up soon after and were allowed in to see how bad it was. It was memorable and the sort of memories that come back as nightmares decades later.