[independentmind]

I live in Charlottesville, which should be fairly safe overall. I live on the side of a fairly steep incline, though, that overlooks a tributary of the Rivanna. I can't begin to guess what would happen if we got upwards of 10 or 20 inches of rain in a day or so.

Apparently, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Charlottesville experienced a "great flood." I'm not sure I know what that means, and I don't want to find out.

I've lived on flat land most of my life( midwest and NJ), so this is all new to me.

[Wu]

I'm next door in Orange County.

[southriver4]

Don't know if you were here in 1996 - big flooding in Greene and Madison, just north of Charlottesville. It was just so surreal to see Red Cross Disaster truck in front of my house. South River Road impassable for days. Graves Mountain, Hood, too. Another example: maybe the Nelson County story of Camille goes without saying. Hundreds of lives lost there from big water down the mountain. Yep. Flood. Bad.