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Unread 09-12-2018, 06:04 AM   #12
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Edit: Stand corrected I did see some media reports talking about flooding, but wrongly compared it to Katrina. Katrina is bad but this could be much worse. Harvey was bad, but Texas is flat. Get half as much rain as they did in Harvey and put it on grade and condense it in narrow valleys. This one will really test the Great Experiment of the TVA and their dams.

I hate to say this and I have not heard anyone talking about this but it is important to consider. All the focus is on the coast as it will take the initial brunt of storm. However looking at the models if this storm parks and dumps rains in the mountain areas the flash flooding will be devastating. Those tall mountains all that water deluging into narrow valleys. Remember what happened to the Greenbrier in the middle of West Virginia.

Just because your inland on high ground for this one could be a false sense of security. Be vigilant and proactive. Family still has family land in hills of Eastern Kentucky those little valley towns in forgotten areas just get decimated. Hills of North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, West Virginia, Kentucky and maybe even North Georgia think proactive as well. You get power outages and infrastructure damage in those areas, it will be rough.

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