I’m in NC. It has rained here every day since last Thursday and the ground is saturated. We don’t need more rain.
I’m in NC as well, thought the rain had stopped yesterday but got a downpour overnight. It’s very saturated as you say, a tropical storm on top of it will bring flooding.
We lost power from 8 last night until 3 this morning. The cable/internet didn’t come back until after 12. Yesterday, we got over 3 inches during the afternoon. The weather during the next couple of days looks quite bad ... rain estimates from 5 up to 8 or 9 inches, depending on what Joaquin does. The ground is so saturated & the trees all have leaves (makes for a lot of wind resistance) so when the nor’easter blows through, it could be similar to having a hurricane hit with trees down and loss of power (plus flooding issues). We’ve filled up the gas cans to run the generator & are trying to batten down the hatches.
The good news (per my favorite meteoroligist - private forecaster, not one of the TV guys) is that the Wednesday afternoon European model has just come out. It does not shift the hurricane to the coast. The new European model continues as the last several runs of the European model have shown... it takes the hurricane out to sea and does not show a US East Coast landfall. Hoping that model trend holds!!