(08-21-2016, 09:48 PM)Arrelaine Wrote: That's about how it was here, too. It happened in a small area, though. There are always flash floods here, where we live in the mountains. During the rainy seasons we always buckle down and expect a number of them to happen, but the one in WV just hit harder than most do. I live nearly on top of a mountain, so I have to worry more about landslides. But five minutes down the road, or thirty minutes the other way, where the town is in a small valley? If it even rains six inches there's a minor flood going on as it runs down and just sits in the town.
Yup, people really have no idea how fast flash flooding can get bad. When the flooding first started down in South LA, most of us up here just thought it was your typical minor flash flooding, it was no big deal. Because we always get stuff like that during rainy periods. But no one was expecting it to be this...massive.
Down here, it's like..you live next to a bayou (river or stream) that feeds into a larger river, feeds into a larger river. But what happens when the larger river is full? The water has nowhere to go, it flows back upstream and starts going over banks. It's just really awful.