9:00 PM.
I looked at the sky above the Star City as the cut-off low pressure system continued clashing with the outer remnants of Tropical Storm Arthur. Such a mess as this hasn't happened since Hurricane Juan back in 1985, ten years before I was born. But I read about it, five straight days of rain and historic flooding that turned streets into rivers and practically rewrote the local geography.
It's been a whole day by now and the forecasts and the EBS over my radio are saying its not going to end any time soon. This storm looks like it wants to gun for that old record. To think that a fragment of Tropical Storm Arthur could get supercharged by a cut-off low like this...
The Roanoke River has already crested according to my little old crystal radio, and power had to be cut around Hershberger Road and other low-lying riverside areas a quarter-hour ago for public safety and the safety of their equipment. So a good chunk of the city was in a blackout.
But where there's storms and dangerous conditions, there's idiots. And that means those said idiots are going to be getting stuck in the flooded low-lying areas.
"Aw hell..."