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[ndkid]

I don't think I've seen Blacksburg this saturated in my time here. *Insert people older than me talking about how it was in their day* I looked out my window this morning because I heard voices and the bottom parking lot behind leimon_malakoi's old place was brown due to mud runoff about an inch high covering it as it ran down to the runoff creek, which was

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[kirigoemimarin]

As someone who has seen the rainstorms that Blacksburg has had, this is nothing, it still falls under cool.

[cxi162]

The difference is that this is a slow and steady rain as opposed to the occasional times when the clouds seem to just fall to the ground in one big splat. I've made some improvements at my house to handle the sudden downpours, but the slow steady rain soaks under my foundation and gets into the basement due to bad drainage in the yard. I currently have various small rivers of water running from the entire back wall into the drain the middle of the floor. :/

[kirigoemimarin]

I'm talking about back in the early 90s, that flood.

[wyrdone]

Summer of '95 when it rained almost non-stop for a month.

That was the year the Goshen Scout camp's Damn burst and flooded downtown Lexington. (as well as several other burgs)

[kirigoemimarin]

There was that one, also one a little earlier when I still lived out in Catawba. That means it was before second grade but after K... Which means 91-93 I think.

[ndkid]

No fair, you're not an old fogey.

I'm not saying this storm is bad, just the current groundwater level.

[cblack]

Yeah, I guess most of your time in Blacksburg was during a big drought. Not being there, I was wondering how the water levels were in the lower lying areas. I remember that one in '95 seeing pics of some of the smaller towns in the valley under water and thought this latest bout might do the same.

As a point of reference... it's sunny and 70... again. *grumble*