this evening seeing as how the floodgates of heaven have opened up on Fayetteville, NC today. We have had over 15 inches of rain in one day. I was going to drive north to Roanoke Rapids and stay overnight or longer in a Hilton Garden Inn but I waited too late to go. By 1:30 PM we were having high gusts of wind and lashing rain and part of I-95 was flooded. Everyone was advised to stay off the roads so I hunkered down in my ground floor condo (still cozy and dry.) The prediction was that Fayetteville area would get 7-9 inches of rain and its been about double that. Saw on video on tv the rescue of a woman and infant from a car in a flooded area of downtown.
There have been 96 swift water rescues in town rescuing 424 people. Fayetteville is about 89 miles inland from Wilmington, NC so it is the rains and rivers and creeks causing the flooding--not ocean surge and tides. I had opened a Chateauneuf du Pape yesterday for the Grenache focus so have stuck with that.
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