A couple of days of rain can do a lot for dried-up rivers and creeks. Check out the Flat River water discharge in cubic feet per second in the last couple of days. It’s about at the median point of 81 years of record-keeping (median signified by those little triangles):
A few more days of this and Lake Michie, into which the Flat River flows, may again look like this (City of Durham photo):
Instead of like this, which is how it looked yesterday at about 9 a.m. (photo by me):
The drought has not broken, though, but it will. They always break sooner or later, regardless of what the alarmists say. Meanwhile, keep strategically flushing.
