As noted in the blog yesterday, all the rain that fell inland ultimately has to reach the sea. That means local creeks and rivers and seeing record water levels and flow rates, and across the southeast flooding will continue to be a problem for days. Water levels still rising in places. I’ve had a couple of requests for the best source of information on this, here are some notes on a great tool by the National Water Prediction Service, run by USGS and NWS. You can click on warnings to get the text, as well as gauge readings and see what the water levels are and, for some, see a forecast. Let’s take a look at the Ogeechee River …
Looking at the map you can see the green areas where there are ongoing flood warnings. Clicking on a green area pops up the warning text for that location; here I clicked near Richmond Hill, where it notes The Ogeechee River is expected to rise further and impacts could worsen. Avoid the area.
Clicking on the squares will show you a station where there is a forecast; the dots are gauges without forecasts. The gauge at Eden is one where there is a forecast. You can see here that it is well in to the “major flood stage,” although it does look like we are at the peak and it should be improving from here.
Looking downstream we have the gauge at Ellabell, which does not have a forecast:
It shows a record height, and given that Eden has just crested, will likely to a bit higher then start down. Similar story in Richmond Hill, where the crest isn’t likely until later tonight …
So this is still an ongoing disaster for many – please help if you can, best bets are through local organizations like churches who know the people directly.
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The flooding impacted my girls, Sheri and Sarah, getting home yesterday. Quite a mess as both work in Savannah.