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  1. John1122
    Really can't beat this on a bright sunny day at 5:00 pm in Mid June.
  2. John1122
    More training extremely heavy rains going right now over the area. Around 1 inch of rain in the last hour with some heavy echos still to come. First was was just very heavy rain about 45 minutes ago, current wave is heavy rain with thunder.
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    It has went from early mid 90s a few weeks ago to being 59 with rain today at 1 in the afternoon the week before solar summer begins.
  4. John1122
    Another 1.5 inches here tonight. Over 10 for the last 5 days in the area. The sheer volume of flood damage is unbelievable. Homes underwater, buildings swept away, roads shredded, giant ditches opened up in yards. Water has been off for days in areas, as has power. Large trees both blown down and washed down. Thousands of tons of mud and debris are every where. Guardrails 15-20 feet above the level of creeks along sides of roads are clogged with logs. There are some large steep ridges that run parallel to the Cumberland Mountains in Campbell County. The bottoms of those ridges were destroyed by the runoff. I drove past a few front yards today that had ditches 4-5 feet wide and 8-10 feet deep in them. It looked like someone came in with a track hoe and just ripped it up. I saw one estimate that 7.4 inches of rain fell in 2 hours over those ridge tops.
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    This is crazy. It's rained 6-8 inches over the last 6 hours or so.
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    MRX issued a flood advisory, needed a flash flood warning. The worst flash flooding I've seen in 20 years is ongoing here. It rained 3 inches in an hour. Most of Campbell County is having major issues right now. It slacked off a bit but heavy rain has returned.
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    Earth shaking thunderstorm has been parked over my area just dumping down rain. Approaching 4.5 inches of rain for the event so far with possibly 2-4+ more to go by Monday.
  8. John1122
    Picked up 1.4 inches of rain on day one of the rainy pattern. Will see what we can add today and through the weekend.
  9. John1122
    Had a brief snow shower around 6 this morning. Chilly but beautiful afternoon.
  10. John1122
    Same thing happened here around 6:30 this evening. Just rained ice for a bit.
  11. John1122
    Blindingly heavy rain and frequent lightning earlier as I drove home from Oak Ridge. Lots of urban flooding around Clinton.
  12. John1122
    Right at an inch of rain so far today. Probably another inch to 1.5 over the next day or so.
  13. John1122
    Transitioned to heavy sleet now with some nickel sized snow flakes mixed. 35 degrees.
  14. John1122
    Steady snow w some sleet falling here. Not likely to amount to much, but even seeing it fall is a rare treat.
  15. John1122
    Ended up with a dusting of snow this morning. Sad that this year is so poor it's one of the notable snow events of the year.
  16. John1122
    Getting light snow. Won't amount to anything but every flake this year has been tough to come by.
  17. John1122
    Norris finally fell enough to reopen schools here tomorrow, though some roads are still closed. It's 10 feet above full summer pool. Even with the spill ways wide open they could only let water out at about 1/2 the rate it was coming in until today, when it finally dropped below the output. It's only supposed to fall 6 inches over the next few days though. Any more rain will be too much rain.
  18. John1122
    Beginning to hear deep bass thunder to the SW of me, rain picking back up as well. This should hopefully be the final push.
  19. John1122
    They are rough but they are 100+ year old wagon roads, turned logging roads. They usually hold up no matter what the weather. Not as prone to mudslides.
  20. John1122
    Good thing I got what I needed earlier today. This is the road below my house between myself and town. There's other ways out but they require a good 4x4.
  21. John1122
    It's finally stopped raining here. Not sure how long the break will be. The mountain sides look so unique during these times. All the dry washes are full and it's like long silver streaks flashing down the brown hillsides.
  22. John1122
    As far as any record of mine or my grandfather's, yes.
  23. John1122
    Still pouring down here. The major creek near the house is the 2nd highest I've ever seen it. In an area that's normally around 3 feet deep it's currently around 16 feet deep based on it's height on an old railroad piling that sits in the middle of it. The railroad piling is normally about 12-14 feet out of the water, the water is currently around a foot below the top. A few years ago the creek got high enough to leave a log sitting on top of the piling.
  24. John1122
    I have now crossed 15 inches of rain this month. Over half of that has fallen in the last few days.
  25. John1122
    Saw that Tri-Cities set the record today for rain for the month. Already significantly over with more to come.
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