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llmart

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40. Wow! You're close to the flooding.

Reply to Traildogbob (Reply #14)

Wed Jul 16, 2025, 12:41 PM

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Were you OK? I lived in Charlotte for ten years and when ever we got a "gully washer" (as the Southerners say) it would just run off the ground which was brick red clay soil. I lived there during hurricane Hugo and no one thought it would reach Charlotte but it did.

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