WhrDLMI

YAY RAIN!

WhrDLMI

It was raining so hard at home this morning that I actually got soaked running the 10 feet from my garage door to the door of my truck. The side streets are all rivers and there is standing water everywhere. If we weren't on the side of a mountain, we'd be under water!

tacocat

Time for HF to flood again. Its been what 5 years or so?

WhrDLMI

I dunno... I know the very end of the National Park/historic downtown floods a little pretty regularly but I don't know the last time it happened.

WhrDLMI

The Harpers Ferry National Park Service website (https://www.nps.gov/hafe/learn/histo...pers-ferry.htm) says the last really big flood was 1996.

National Weather Service says that right now it is at about 3.5 feet and they are forecasting the rivers to crest at about 9 feet sometime tomorrow afternoon. They don't call it a flood until it is over 18 feet so I think everyone there is high and dry.

tacocat

That island in the middle of the Shenandoah River used to have people on it!

WhrDLMI

Prior to the 1880's, HF was like "the" industrial center.

3AFL S2K

What did there make there?

WhrDLMI

Guns mostly. There was an armory set up there by George Washington in the late 1700's. That industry stuck around until after the Civil War when the town was almost completely wiped out by floods.

tacocat

Concrete dildos. They came with 5 cork floats attached in case you dropped it in the water. It was a pretty swanky town back in the day. But when it flooded, all the floaty dildos went down the river. Some say they all stopped at the Capitol building and started working there.