More Substantial Rains for the South Could Bring Flooding

Doppler Dale's Weather Posts ^ | 10-13-09 | Dale Bader

[dopplerdale]

Rains have already soaked much of Northeast Texas and Arkansas and it now spreading into the MidSouth and heading towards the TN Valley as of 3 PM Tuesday. Over the past week, it has been cloudy and dreary with periods of rain, some of which has been heavy for much of the South from Northeast Texas-Northern Georgia. This area has seen an estimated 2”-6” of rainfall during this time with some isolated higher amounts. This has saturated the ground and unfortunately, more rain, some heavy, is on the way.

[dopplerdale]

Autumn is typically mild and relatively dry for much of the Eastern U.S. Not the case this year with winter-like cold in spots and over abundant rains in others.

[Blueflag]

Agreed. Here in the Atlanta area October is ‘normally’ our driest month of the year. The soil is quite saturated and when we got about 2.8” over the last two days the streams (and our lake) immediately rose and went about 1’ above flood level.

The good news is that Lake Lanier is effectively at full pool which is unheard of for October. the lake is up TWENTY FEET over this time last year.

I’ll take the rain.

[beethovenfan]

It’s global warming, I tell ya!

[AngelesCrestHighway]

You’ll also be getting this in a few days....

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/doppler?section=weather/doppler&id=5750133

[libstripper]

In late March of 2007, during the worst of your drought, I flew from Atlanta to London and back. As I was leaving the Airport Hilton parking lot on the way home, I told the parking lot attendant that I hoped for it to rain on her that day. She got my message and gave me a grateful laugh.

[17th Miss Regt]

How cute. They mis-marked the 101 freeway as the 118 freeway in that image!

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Thats why the traffic sucks!

[basil]

I live in central Texas, just outside of Austin. We have been grateful for every drop of rain we have gotten recently, as we have been in a very severe drought since last year.

I'm looking out my window at Lake Travis, and it is not a pretty sight---the lake is still way below it's assigned level. (All lakes but 1 in Texas are man-made, dam controlled lakes.)

I'm sure hoping that we get lots more rain here, though certainly not wishing flooding conditions on anyone!

[Deaf Smith]

Do all California highways have the designation of "The"?

Are any of them signed US, IH or maybe CA?

[17th Miss Regt]

Route 101 is US Route 101. The 118 freeway is California Route 118 (”The Ronald Reagan Freeway”).