Remnants of Hurricane Debby - South Carolina faces a "Catastrophic Flood" Situation

[Raptor Witness]

The remnants of hurricane Debby, which struck the Big Bend region of Florida yesterday, has essentially stalled near Savannah, GA. "Keep this in the back of your mind."

Although it's difficult to forecast natural disasters, ahead of time, it's possible that a catastrophic flood event is unfolding in South Carolina.

Given that I survived hurricane Florence in 2018, and had 3 feet of water in my home, which was located on the edge of the Waccamaw River, I feel and have great sympathy for the potential victims of this looming catastrophe.

Although I moved to higher ground(at around 30 feet above sea level,) following this tragedy, I'm potentially looking at sitting on an island, for days. I have flood insurance, but I'm still worried. You never fully recover from a flood, like my wife and I went through. You're permanently affected by the trauma.

 As you'll also see, this flood, if it unfolds as anticipated by the experts, may have profound political implications for the current governor of South Carolina, Henry McMaster. The reasons are, McMaster was arguably specifically warned ... and yet his politics remains, unchanged.

Below is the current location of Debby, as well as the projected path, for the next 5 days. 

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Edited August 6 by Raptor Witness

[Raptor Witness]

After pausing at Savannah, Debby has now broken free from the coast, and is wrapping moist air around her, like a blanket. She’s moving East towards the Gulf Stream.

Convection has all but gone out, like a flame, but now it’s game on, again; as the pressure is dropping once more …

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Edited August 7 by Raptor Witness

[Tatetopa]

Be careful my southeastern friends.

 

[Gromdor]

One thing about floods- people were complaining about the toxic spill from the train derailment in Palestine, Ohio, but they fail to realize that floods spread way more toxic elements in a wider area than the trail derailment ever could.  True it is diluted a bit, but it is there nonetheless.  

[Raptor Witness]

So far, our rainfall rates in NE SC are roughly half what the Waccamaw River, downstream, saw in 2018 with hurricane Florence.

The current projections for the upper basin in SW NC, are about half, also, which is good news. However, “the show,” as governor McMaster described in his daily briefing today, is only about half over.

Stay tuned … 

[Raptor Witness]

As evidenced at the beginning of this video, Clarkton, NC experienced significant flooding yesterday, which is very near the upper basin of the Waccamaw River, as did the Little Pee Dee River’s upper basin at Bladenboro, NC.

At about the 0:30 second mark…

However, we’re still significantly lower in overall volume, I suspect, than we saw with hurricane Florence in 2018. 

The caveat is, it’s still raining heavily in these two river basins, and it will take time to calculate the volume setting up to move downstream.