Its the 40 inches of rain that will do the damage.
That's assuming the rain fall forecast doesn't bust similar to the way the wind speed forecast busted.
>>Its the 40 inches of rain that will do the damage.<<
The models I saw this AM suggested more like 20”
Yeah the flooding is the real danger here. In my little town in the mountains about 8 yrs ago we had a freak thunderstorm hit us. It was the proverbial raining cats, dogs and anything else you could think of in buckets. Usually that type storm puts down its water and quickly moves, except this one stayed put from 4:00am to 8:00am in the same spot and it just was a four hour cloud burst. We got 10 inches of rain in that short period of time. The small town was flooded and many businesses were heavily damaged as well as homes. The water will be far more damaging than the wind.