[at-l] weather.com 9/17---

[lbooher at pure.net (Leslie Booher)]

"During the overnight hours, over already highly saturated grounds, heavy rains inundated the Southern Appalachians. In Buncombe County, North Carolina, a 97 mph wind gust was measured on Flat Top Mountain (elevation 4000 feet) while flooding closed roads and led to evacuations. Similar scenarios (heavy mountain rains, mudslides, evacuations) have played out all night and early this morning along the mountains of northeast Georgia, Upstate South Carolina, and other locations in the mountains of western North Carolina. More heavy rain is in the cards further north in the central Appalachians of West Virginia, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Flood watches extend from Alabama, much of Georgia and the Florida Panhandle northward to Pennsylvania in anticipation of Tropical Depesssion Ivan's very wet north-to-northeast track over the next 2 days." 

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