Well, looks like we're going to have a pretty bad one.
The ground is already saturated from earlier snows and now the rain.
It's rained steadily for the last 20 hours, and is supposed to rain for at least 23 more.
Weather forecast is expecting another 5 inches through 8PM tomorrow night.
I went out a little earlier, and several of the back roads and low lying roads were already covered.
Corps of Engineers are releasing water at the lake. That river/tributary is way up from even normal flood levels.
County executives have emergency personnel on standby to close the floodgates in town. If that happens, is going to divert likely millions of gallons over onto the river that goes down along the road to our house. It already carries water from Letcher County, up toward Virginia and the other direction up toward the lake near Tennessee border.
So, at best, we'll be stuck for a while. Hopefully still above water levels, but if the shut the floodgate across the river from my front porch of my house, I don't know what that will do. That may start to get hairy. The view from my front porch is almost level and straight line with the bottom of the flood wall.
So far, 2 of the 4 main routes into or out of the county are closed to flooding.
And in Lynch, a mine water reservoir has blown out and took out the main road in that community.
That too also comes by our property eventually and is only going to make matters worse.
Mudslide reported up hwy 38 too.
The ground is already saturated from earlier snows and now the rain.
It's rained steadily for the last 20 hours, and is supposed to rain for at least 23 more.
Weather forecast is expecting another 5 inches through 8PM tomorrow night.
I went out a little earlier, and several of the back roads and low lying roads were already covered.
Corps of Engineers are releasing water at the lake. That river/tributary is way up from even normal flood levels.
County executives have emergency personnel on standby to close the floodgates in town. If that happens, is going to divert likely millions of gallons over onto the river that goes down along the road to our house. It already carries water from Letcher County, up toward Virginia and the other direction up toward the lake near Tennessee border.
So, at best, we'll be stuck for a while. Hopefully still above water levels, but if the shut the floodgate across the river from my front porch of my house, I don't know what that will do. That may start to get hairy. The view from my front porch is almost level and straight line with the bottom of the flood wall.
So far, 2 of the 4 main routes into or out of the county are closed to flooding.
And in Lynch, a mine water reservoir has blown out and took out the main road in that community.
That too also comes by our property eventually and is only going to make matters worse.
Mudslide reported up hwy 38 too.