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We are wet, wet, wet! The official rainfall total for yesterday at National Airport (about four miles from my house) was 5.19 inches. We've had more than 8 inches of rain since Friday evening, and they're predicting as much as 2 inches more by tomorrow evening.
Last night, the saturated ground gave way and a massive mudslide destabilized a big section of the Beltway not far from my house. I-95 was closed, both ways, all night, as were the nearby surface streets. A low lying neighborhood a couple of miles from my house had to be evacuated last night as an adjacent stream flooded out of its banks. Many of the homes were flooded with chest deep water. Fairfax County Fire & Rescue dispatched every boat in the county to the neighborhood to assist in evacuating the residents.
We lost power about 10pm last night, and it was still out about an hour ago, when I last spoke to my wife. She's making plans to borrow a generator this afternoon if the power doesn't come back on. We've got two big freezers full of food that we can't afford to have thaw out. It appears to be a localized power outage, so I'm hoping the power will be restored soon. Of course, with no electricity, we had no hot water this morning, so I didn't get a shower or a shave before I left, and I'm feeling a bit scruffy today.
My wife worked last night, and the trip to pick her up at the hospital was a bit of an adventure. A number of the streets I normally use were closed, and several others clearly were flooded last night. They were covered in mud, with debris scattered everywhere. There even a couple of spots where people tried to drive through the water, and had to abandon their stalled cars, leaving a bit of an obstacle course for the morning commute.
I hope this weather pattern changes soon, though the forecast calls for it to hold through most of the week, so we are looking at further flooding issues over the next few days...
Last night, the saturated ground gave way and a massive mudslide destabilized a big section of the Beltway not far from my house. I-95 was closed, both ways, all night, as were the nearby surface streets. A low lying neighborhood a couple of miles from my house had to be evacuated last night as an adjacent stream flooded out of its banks. Many of the homes were flooded with chest deep water. Fairfax County Fire & Rescue dispatched every boat in the county to the neighborhood to assist in evacuating the residents.
We lost power about 10pm last night, and it was still out about an hour ago, when I last spoke to my wife. She's making plans to borrow a generator this afternoon if the power doesn't come back on. We've got two big freezers full of food that we can't afford to have thaw out. It appears to be a localized power outage, so I'm hoping the power will be restored soon. Of course, with no electricity, we had no hot water this morning, so I didn't get a shower or a shave before I left, and I'm feeling a bit scruffy today.
My wife worked last night, and the trip to pick her up at the hospital was a bit of an adventure. A number of the streets I normally use were closed, and several others clearly were flooded last night. They were covered in mud, with debris scattered everywhere. There even a couple of spots where people tried to drive through the water, and had to abandon their stalled cars, leaving a bit of an obstacle course for the morning commute.
I hope this weather pattern changes soon, though the forecast calls for it to hold through most of the week, so we are looking at further flooding issues over the next few days...
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