
Originally Posted by
KG4CGC
It actually slowed down on the rain and stopped for a couple of days. Road crews are out all over the place moving dirt back into place and packing it down. So many trees fell over that all you could do was cut them up and wait for the rain to stop before hauling off the wood and filling the holes in. Sections of roads were getting wiped out around buried cement pipes that were overwhelmed by saturated soil conditions. There are a lot of places where normal rain isn't an issue but due to daily flash flooding were pushed to their limit.
It rained so much on the Blue Ridge Parkway that roads were literally splitting apart from where the soil was escaping and there was nothing to support the asphalt.