Savannah got hit hard with rain last night. The downtown flooded badly. From the Savannah Morning News:
"Along the 1600 block of East Henry Street, waters were so high, cars were floating and hitting the bottom of the overpass."

We didn't get hit quite as bad here where we are on the island, but we are a couple of feet above the rest of the island on our block. I did have a freaked out parrot here when a shepherd's crook with plant blew against the window screen, just inches from his cage on the other side of the window. I couldn't see what the problem was in the dark, but it's been fixed til Charley gets here, anyhow.

Hope all my friends here are ok and didn't suffer damage.

girlsaylor

but we did have a whole heap of rain is a little bitty period of time yesterday. Especially around the time of the tornado watch. The storm sewers in the City simply could not handle it. That's what happens when you build in a place that was once swamp and is below sealevel.

Every now and then, when the City and County gets into a squabble about something, the County threatens to quit maintaining the big drainage canals and then the City would just float out to sea.

If we get as much tonight and tomorrow as they are expecting, we will have a bunch of angry people. I don't know of anything that could be done to make the rain go somewhere else.

The tide will be coming in at a bad time with the high tide at about 8:00 Saturday morning. The flood gates will be closed in the City until the tide goes out enough to release them. That's one thing nice about living on an island like we do, unless someone just happens to be in a low, low spot, the excess water just runs off the edges into the marshes when the tide changes. None of this waiting around until the storm sewers can empty. LOL

Jan