SE United States setup for worst flooding ever?

[iluvseashore]

I have family in WV and am concerned about flooding there too. They have had alot of rain this year and some flooding problems for the past 2 years on and off. I hope they don't get Ivan they sure don't need it there either.

[Anonymous]

Hi I'm Jeb from the Woodbridge, Virginia region. That's in Prince William County, about 20 miles SSW of Washington DC.

I have been staying with relatives down here in central Texas since June 9th, and I am about to fly back home on September 23. some of my friends have emailed me about the river levels in northern Virginia.

They are very high.

I am beginning to wonder if all I will see when I fly back into Washington National Airport on Sept 23 is water, water, and more water! The runways at Washington National Airport are only a few feet above the Potomac River!!!

Geeze, Will I be able to get back in at all? Will all the runways be UNDERWATER?!!!

All that orographic rain everyone is talking about will fall in the mountains and not in Woodbridge.

But there is a really bad problem: Water runs downhill into the rivers, and the rivers run east to where I live.

Is there any chance we might just luck out and squeak by with only 2 inches of light rain in northern Virginia? Or are we gonna get slammed by Ivan too?

I am getting just a little weary of hurricanes. It seems like we've been hearing about hurricane this or hurricane that forever!!!

Frankly, 20 to 30 inches of rain in the western Carolinas scares me to death!!! What if that happens in western Virginia too?!!!! Our rivers in central and eastern Virginia are already really, really high, and all this extra rain will cause record catastrophic flooding!!

Oh please tell me the rain will miss northern Virginia!!!

To fly back home I'm gonna have to get myself one of those planes that can land on a lake, because that's exactly what Woodbridge will be - A Lake!!!!

What the hell is going on?!!

[Guest]

Thought I would bring this back since it's about to be known how bad it's going to be.

[saltcod]

Our mets in Asheville are saying that rivers here can handle about an inch of rain. Obviously, it looks like a fair bit more than that, so I guess here we go again.

As a note of humor, however, a guy on a local radio station called to insist that there was no way we would get any rain at all. He wanted to know why the forecasters thought there would be, and to ask (seriously) if the computer models didn't take into account the Will of God.
Well, umm, gosh. No. No they don't.
But hey, wouldn't that be fun?
20Z WOG runs show that there IS NO IVAN!
Anyhow. I needed the laugh. Thank you Mr. Whoever-You-Are.

[HurricaneQueen]

That is hysterical. Thanks so much for the laugh. I'll probably tell that story for days.

Lynn

[Guest]

TWC has Ivan planted over the western Carolina's and Eastern Tennessee Vally Sat thru Mon.

[STORMSURGE]

its crazy with the computer models, they are all over the place after landfall, loop de loop backwards, the forwards, and I think now bamm has it back in the gulf later. Imagine a stall, and all of the states affected, and then comes Jeanne on top of all of this. row row row your boat. This has disaster written all over it more so INLAND due to flooding.