In Charlotte, we just had a fantastic couple of thunder storms! I missed thunderstorms when I was in California. It was incredible; the force of the rain was vibrating the whole house and it lasted for hours, both times. The (clean) gutters on the house couldn't even keep up and the water was pouring over their edges. The yard became a really wide flowing creek a couple of inches deep. The usually dry creekbed in the back yard became a serious torrent. I took some videos and thought I would post some screenshots. The interesting thing is that in the above picture there are three big streams converging in the forest and underground water tunnels that are undoubtedly being widened into small caverns. It's hard to get a sense of scale here... the skinniest point in the torrent in the above picture is about 8 feet across, 4 feet deep, and must be flowing at 25 mph... One would definitely be swept away in the blink of an eye.
Downstream it filled the forest floor. The only other times I have seen sustained rain this intense was during hurricanes. These shots were about 15 minutes after the most intense rains subsided.
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