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by Stan Disbrow » Sun Sep 16, 2018 8:28 am
Hi,
The end may be in sight. Total rainfall here: 6.5". But we are North and West of the thing. The further South and East you go, the worse it gets. Just walked down to the river. It is at its normal high line. It will flood, but I expect maybe 15 feet. We are 100 feet up here on the farm.
Down near the ocean end, the estimate is for 60 feet of flood. They are evacuating folks all over. The closest to us is about 15 miles downstream where the Little River dumps into the Cape Fear. They have a 1 mile zone around that point. The Cape Fear runs South by East as it flows, so right into Wilmington where this thing came in at.
The USS North Carolina is there. They were wanting to clear the mud out from under her. Well, she is stern sticking out into the river, so I suspect Mission Accomplished..... (!)
Where we are, right near where the Deep and Haw Rivers meet, after which it is called the Cape Fear, didn't get all that much rain. I doubt the flood here will match Matthew, much less Fran, for high water. In fact, I bet it doesn't get up as far as it did when we had 6" of rain from a series of thunderstorms six weeks ago.
Stan
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