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A lot of things are going to happen next week, and I don't know how much rain they're going to get. But I don't think is going to crest over 23 feet, right at major flood stage.

It should come in after the crest in the southern areas, which is good news. If we get significant rain into the northern part of the basin, it could affect crest values.

Flood stage is at 13 feet. At 14 feet it starts overflowing into the vineyards. When it reaches 15 feet, it starts getting into the neighborhoods. That's when we began to have problems.

I'm concerned that before we get to 6,500- 7,000 cubic feet per second (flood stage), we'll have more areas wet than normal.

They used to say very specific things like, 'The crest will reach 49 feet at this time.' Now they give a wider range.

We are looking at a major weather event. There is a possibility a lot of the rivers will reach or surpass flood stage within the next 12 hours.

The rivers are up to flood stage, but it's receding in between the storms. It's really strange weather right now. It'll come down in huge downpours, but then it just stops and subsides as the sun comes out. We were worried that the rain would just continue straight on without stopping, but everything is holding up fine now. It's nothing like it was earlier this year.

They are quite full and near capacity. The flood managers are trying to dump some of the water. The question is, if we have a larger rain event above these reservoirs, we could have a flood downstream that could cause damage.

Brian McInerney

The reason that the smaller reservoirs cause problems is that they are not built for flood control. We don't have large flood gates to release water rapidly between storms. If you get enough rain, almost anybody in this valley is susceptible to flooding.

We don't know how quickly the flood waters came to New Orleans, ... I heard some man-on-the-street interviews say the flood water went from six inches to 10 feet in an hour.

It's one thing to say when it's going to rain, but how do we know when there's going to be a flood? We're still not good at predicting floods or droughts, but we hope that's just one out of many things our model can help us predict.

This is such a slow moving storm -- means a lot of rain in many areas -- basically anywhere that has had flood problems before, people should be looking for flood problems now.

Elizabeth Morse

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We have the support of the community. This is a major event for us. In Orlando, major events happen every week.

[It happened] about halfway down the face, and basically goes all the way across. The slide path was about 250 feet long by 200 feet wide. [It's a strange location] considering that they bomb it, but these things happen.

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