Mid-NC here. 5.2" of rain over 8-10 hours. Phew. No permanent damage to any of my garden crops, but I did have some weighted down pepper branches sag to the ground with all the water from hours of pounding "straight down" rain. The wind from this storm was almost non-existent, but the rain was steady. We have days of sunshine ahead to dry out the soil a bit and perk up the leaves. BTW, this 5"+ of rain should do wonders for helping climb out of our last stages of drought. There has been a lot of river/creek flooding in the area, though (nothing remotely Katrina-like...just property damage or blocked roadways).

Came through ok here as well. Minor damage from winds, couple small trees down, some large limbs down are common. Winds only gusted up to around 50MPH here during heavy rain bands. Only knocked over my 5' windmill in its pot, but no damage. Bananas got a bit of shred, but not real bad. The water came up to the drain tops here, and moved up in the toilet some, but nothing like we saw before. We had sandbagged and prepared yesterday. IT figures we didnt flood. I would put money on it if we had not had the sand bags ready, we would have flooded massively. Just how things go it seems. LOL! Cute citty Jonnieb. I found my cat the night after Isabel went thru. I was helping my friend move into his new house in columbia heights, and i saw this tiny little dot in the yard. Just a couple ears sticking up. I approached but he ran away, but kept coming back, we put water in ice cube trays for him ( its all we had at the time) and he would come and drink, but was very skittish. I finally got him, no mother be found anywhere, no cat calling, nothing. We think his mother may have perished during the storm / flooding. He was flea ridden and terribly imaciated, just skin and bones really. I took him home that night, and took him to the vet the following week. At that point we did not know he was a boy, so I named him Isabel, after the storm. At the vet, the vet said to me.. well, Isable, IS A BOY! LOL! I had to bottle feed him with an eye dropper for a couple weeks. He weighed a whopping 6 ounces and completely fit in the palm of my hand, tail and all. The vet said he was likely the runt, and he was barely 4 weeks old. Hes now 5 years old as of the last week in august, and is a happy, healthy, but lean, and smaller house cat. Hes got the most beautiful ocean green eyes. Hes still got that "WILD" in him tho. He was after all a wild ferral city kitty. Heres a couple of pics of him.

As disorganized as Hanna is, I'm not convinced she's not going to still come back and hit SC! And who the heck knows what Ike's gonna do. Thankfully, I'm mid-state so the most we'll get is bad rains, although that's bad enough since we have drainage issues. Our back yard tends to look like Lake Murphy after a good rain. (Murphy's our last name...and we live near Lake Murray.) Mike - are you NUTS?!? You got awfully close to those flood waters in that video! I guess I'm just a skeerdy-cat about a lot of things. ;) (By the way, cute doggie. I love love love dogs. And animals in general. More than people often times.)

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