Flat is good in flooding situations, I think.
That's the way it is here in the Miami area.
Still, if you get heavy rains, there will be places where it will collect and flow dangerously and become surprisingly deep, so please be very careful.
Thank you for your concern Sam Cree. My immediate concern at this time is for those in and around the path of ivan right now.
I do not drive when it is raining, and I have seen so much flooding in this area this summer that I have no intentions of going anywhere!!!
but as I said, this rain has nothing to do with any of the tropical situations currently going on - those I am not looking forward to - even though we won't even begin to feel effects of IVAN until sometime over the weekend.