It's really coming down in Alexandria. [View all]

I just got a flash flood warning. Now they've repeated it.

I'm taking a few days off. I went out shopping on Tuesday afternoon, as a medical appointment I had had got canceled. On the way back, as I was walking from the bus stop and nearing home, I saw piles of furniture out by the sidewalk in a neighborhood where I though flooding would not be an issue. It was that neighborhood's night before trash pickup. I stopped to talk to a resident putting out stuff.

Alexandria had received a lot of rain a few days earlier, on the previous weekend. He said it was the fourth time his basement had been flooded. There's an underground stream that goes through the neighborhood. The rainwater passages to it are becoming clogged, so they don't drain the way they ought to.

His neighborhood will be taking it again this morning.