HI William,

I live in NC, some 15 miles northeast of the state capitol Raleigh - in a town called Durham. We had 6 - 8 inches or rain in the area where I lived from Friday night through Saturday. Down further by some 60 - 65 miles south of Raleigh in the Fayettville area of NC they had over 15 inches of rain falling within a 24 hour time period.

Rivers and dams crested well above flood stage and roads and homes down in that area where several damaged. Schools down there are still closed as of today.

Back up north just outside of the Raleigh area on Saturday evening there was the video newscast of dramatic rescues which occurred when people in 3 cars all got stranded in water that they had no business trying to get through. Their cars stalled and not able to be restarted, paramedics, fire and police retrieved these people by boat. Or they all could have easily drowned otherwise. One was a man who straddled himself on top of the roof of his car as the fury of the water essentially carried the car downstream. Nearby a young mother and her infant daughter also trapped inside her stalled car were also rescued, captured on camera.

As you may know to warn people, news stations along with weather forecasters issue a warning not to even try to drive a car through standing water. You just don't know how deep it can be. "Turn around, (your vehicle) and don't drown" is their saying. Trying to be sympathetic for these individual's plight which almost cost them their lives I have no idea what they were trying to do driving their cars through feet deep water!

The local forecasters badly under-estimated in their prognosis how much rain our state would receive especially in the north-central portion of NC where I live. They all thought that we'd receive 2 - 3 inches at most on Friday night. I think that they were all off - in some cases by a lot!

I'm glad that you made it through William with as much minimal damage to your house and property as possible. Mankind still has no answer for the fury of Mother Nature!

Jeff

Glad you came through it well William

Good stuff and please that all is ok with you

Hi, great to hear you are safe and getting back to normal. Irv.

Good to know your safe. Love the picture. :)

Glad you and your family are safe. I watched the Carolina/Tampa Bay game last night. The announcers were talking about the disaster down in the Carolinas.

That s great ! Thanks !

Pat

Glad you are safe also - I blogged about surviving Matthew also, and I LOVE that picture that you just put on this post!!

Glad you're safe!

Glad you guys came out safely!