RAZD write me:
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and of course if it swings a little wide you get it full bore?
Well, we sure got a hell of a lot of rain and storms. The wind wasn't as strong as what we got from Katrina. I think we in Vicksburg have been close enough to both of these recent blows to observe the difference of being on the east vs west sides, even though the difference was distorted by proximity.
With Katrina we were on the west side of a fairly nearby hurricane. We had almost a full day of near-hurricane-force winds which caused lots of damage, but relatively little rain. With Rita, we were on the east side of a more distant storm. Although the winds weren't nearly as violent, the rain was hard and non-stop for hours.
The apartment I live in began to flood early today. A few gallons of water soaked my living room carpet in one corner. Apparently it leaked down from a flower bed directly above (this is a basement apartment). I've spent quite a bit of time today working with a wet-vac, but no damage was done. Believe me, though, it's a little startling to wake up to wet carpet while an intense thunderstorm is raging outside.
I suppose I shouldn't be too concerned about this. Perhaps some more soil needs to be packed into that flower bed, but the rain today came from a direction directly opposite of usual. It was nonstop for so long that I don't really think it's likely that the apartment will flood again, or that it would be any worse than this if it did.
"I think younger workers first of all, younger workers have been promised benefits the government promises that have been promised, benefits that we can't keep. That's just the way it is." George W. Bush, May 4, 2005