wash the flooding on for. someone who may agree, doctor marshall shepherd is a director of a science program and former president of the meteorological society. i assume you would agree with that statement. i would agree and what s even scarier s were probably talking more than 30 inches. were talking about 4 feet, perhaps more. i just read about 9 trillion gallons of water have already fallen on the area. that would fill the great salt lake twice. elizbeth: the narrative to say the storm is weakening would be dangerous. i want to put up a graphic for viewers that shows the concentration of precipitation. it s not going away anytime soon. we could be seeing rain up until wednesday for these folks. and perhaps beyond. as meteorologists we ve known this for about a week or so.