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Thanks first, everybody.

The Triassic Basin, John Kimball's home in the Piedmont region, the central North Carolina,

was hit by massive flooding over the past couple days, and it affected John's life.

So, John, I'm sure all our listeners have been wondering about how you did with Storm Chantal.

Chantal, is that how you say?

Chantal.

Tropical storm, Chantal, Chantal, came ashore in South Carolina and then turned into

a tropical depression as it moved into North Carolina.

And it sort of stalled over Orange County, where Chapel Hill is, Orange and Alamance,

Chatham counties. And it just became a bomb of rain.

Just dumped a bunch of rain on you guys. Yeah, anywhere from 8 to 12 inches, which, you know,

the biggest rain event in my life in Chapel Hill was Hurricane Fran in 1996, which was almost

eight inches in Chapel Hill. You still speak of Hurricane Fran in 1996, which was almost eight inches in Chapel.

You still speak of Hurricane Fran with great nostalgia and fondness.

Yes.

Yes. So this didn't have the wind that Hurricane Fran had, but it did have the same amount of water and perhaps more, and it was all within six hours.

And we weren't really prepared for it because it wasn't really widespread.

It was like, oh, this thing's kind of coming.

And, you know, when it's a big hurricane, you've got days and people are all amped up.

No one gets amped up over a tropical storm.

So I wasn't really watching it that closely. But by about 7.30, it was pretty obvious looking out my window at Booker Creek Rising that it was going to be a serious event.

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