The good news is that Ashley’s receding a bit. I’ve seen some city storm drain workers around and about trying to get the…how should I put this…de-flooding process going. With the tide going out, their efforts will be helped. The winds have been kicking back up though, and the rain does continue to fall, albeit not at the clip of earlier. Charleston has about one or two more real heavy bands of rain to go before this is over. I’m encouraged by seeing the winds in the area starting to trend to the northwest though, which indicates that the center is now passing north of here and that we’ll be through this soon. But for now, the squalls continue…just got a nice gust of wind and a bit of a burst of rain, but Ashley is largely becoming dry ground again. I’ll say one thing — Ernesto was certainly no Thursday. The maximum rain per hour we got was 1.18″, and the total for today comes in so far at 2.24″, which is a far cry from the 2.30″ of rain we got in 20 minutes last Thursday. I’m starting to dry out, which is good, and I think my outdoor activities are over unless the winds really start to kick up for a while, in which case I’ll do my ten minutes of being Cantore with hair.
I do have concern over Wilmington and Myrtle Beach though — they’re squared up for a date with what will probably be a 75-80 MPH Category 1 Hurricane Ernesto by the time it finally makes landfall at 8 tonight. I can see hurricane warnings going up in that area when the 5PM advisory comes out. From there, Ernesto’s rains will devastate an already saturated Mid-Atlantic region. Not looking good up that way at all…
Again, I totally apologize for the downtime we’ve had today. It’s very disappointing. But I really want to thank everyone who have kept coming back and reading — it’s been a great drive to keep going, and it’s been a lot of fun. 
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