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Yes sir, there was substantial flash flooding a few days ago. I heard it made the national news and we did unfortunately have some fatalities. I believe a car was hit by H3 and took out an entire family. Very sad situation. That is the only loss of life that I am aware of. I do not have a whole lot of time to watch the local news, let alone the national. But a lot of property damage, a lot of flooding. What essentially happened on the interstate was that particular portion of Interstate 24 and 75 where they meet is really under construction. Right now they have temporary drains in there and those temporary drains were not designed to handle that kind of flow. So that is why we had interstate issues. Some of the other areas around here, we have several levees and things around town that help direct the water. Now these have by and large fixed what used to be a very, very bad flooding problem in Chattanooga. However, if we get a lot of rain in a big hurry, and my gauge says that within about four hours we got 7 and 1 third inches. So that is what my gauge said. It is a brand new gauge too so things better be right. You get that much water that fast, it just does not have time to run off. So that was what was causing the issues. Lots of property damage, only the small loss of life, but any loss is too large. That is all I have. Anybody local have something more pertinent, go ahead and give call. W4EDP. W4EDP, go ahead. Yeah Joe, I was just going to let you know on that loss of life, the family, that was three in one car. Huge, huge, looked like an oak tree in the picture. Fell on the car and just squashed it flat. But the fourth one was a different person and supposedly from what I have read and heard, they were out walking around slash plating in the flood waters. Back to you W4EDP. Beep.