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The water is hard to get out of the way and it will kill you more than the wind will. a lot of these areas have had very saturated ground, trees are going to fall down, power lines will be down. people will be without power for weeks. chad, can you pick up on the rain thing? that s the first i heard about it. there was concern up until last night we were going to see two or three feet maybe in interior north carolina up into virginia right now. is that rainfall less and where will it be falling? it s less up here toward blacksburg and up along the blue ridge parkway in virginia. that would certainly be less. but when you have a storm that s still spinning, and john, it s 150 miles from here to here and another 150 miles from here to here. there will be tremendous upslope. this is the area that s topographic. it goes up and down. the rain will hit those mountains and the rain will get into those valleys, and that s where that significant flash flooding will occur. because of this tu ....

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