If'n You're Lucky "Nuff

[wondersofwine]

Saturday afternoon I drove to Raleigh to visit Carolina Wine Company and have dinner at an Italian restaurant. Was just entering Johnston County on my way back to Fayetteville when warnings came over the car radio that Johnston County was anticipating a storm with 55mph winds, hail and flash flooding. Some streets in Raleigh were already experiencing flash flooding. I did the sensible thing and pulled off I-40 and stayed overnight at the Hampton Inn Clayton. Don't think the winds got that bad and didn't see hail, but very heavy rain for about four hours and flash flooding in four or five counties. Wasn't as bad as Houston though. I sympathize with the Texans. North Carolina had terrible flood damage with Hurrican Floyd a couple years back.