Flooding rains and lightening here in SW Alabama ( Mobile)

[Guest]

Check out the rainfall rate for one hour, upwards of 4 to 5 inches and hour. Looks like a solid column of water falling outside. Major flooding occuring in my neighborhood and we are on higher ground in west Mobile.

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/radar/latest/DS ... kmob.shtml

[mtm4319]

The power just flickered here in western Mobile County. If we make it through the next 15-20 minutes with power, I think we'll be all right.

[baygirl_1]

woke me up! there's more lightning in this one than i remember in any other tropical storms! lights kepp flickering and it sounds like rain is being tossed at us by buckets!! local news just said it's coming down at a rate of 2-3 inches per hour. and the isolated tornadoes have started for us. tropical storms can be just as scary as Cat 4s, y'all...

[mtm4319]

Mobile Regional got 2.72" last hour and 3.62" the past 3 hours.

[baygirl_1]

it's calmed down a bit here, though still raining pretty good and gusty every now and then. however, local news said that we'd be getting the bulk of it in a little while as the center will likely pass just to our west and northwest. Round 1 over... round 2 starting????

[PTPatrick]

Here in Springhill, it is finally slowing down as far as rain, but the lightning in the past hour was NUTS for a tropical system(I remeber lightning with Georges' eyewall). Never really got to windy. I guess I am going to have to go get supplies later this week for Dennis. i am not fighting store lines. And after Ivan I am sure these people wont be messing around. Looks as though the Apalachicola to say, Mordan City will get Dennis, with Mobile/Pascagoula/Biloxi in the bullseye...or at least they are now.