Thread: Rain Amount In Your Area

Here in Piedmont my gauge shows 1'' @ 8:00 am this morning.

Yesterday about 6 PM, I had .6" in rain gauge which I dumped. This morning at 8 AM, an additional 2" was showing. I am about 25 miles west of Lake Wylie. It's going to take a lot more to fill up the lake.

Originally Posted by STUMP HUNTER

Here in Piedmont my gauge shows 1'' @ 8:00 am this morning.

Originally Posted by charles biggers

Yesterday about 6 PM, I had .6" in rain gauge which I dumped. This morning at 8 AM, an additional 2" was showing. I am about 25 miles west of Lake Wylie. It's going to take a lot more to fill up the lake.

Memories of an old man sitting on the couch with nothing to do but watch it rain. I lived in Clover and worked at the Westinghouse/Siemens turbine plant for 42 years. I sat at work one day with my calculator and figured that I had crossed the Buster Boyd bridge over 34,000 times. Wylie is almost like a mountain lake. There is a tremendous amount of runoff that pours into the lake. About a mile up hwy 49, heading north, after crossing the bridge, there used to be a stone marker that said that this is the highest point in Mecklenburg county. The stone was placed there in 1946, being the geek that I am, I get out of my truck some times and read these old signs when I see them. The stone was removed when they four laned the road several years ago. I used to cross the bridge at 5 and notice the low water levels. We would have a two hour thunder storm that night and the next morning, the rock wall on the right you see when you cross Crowders Creek would be under water. The point of my ramblings is that once the ground is wet, it does not take a whole lot of rain to fill Lake Wylie. I have also found out that the real highest point, by a couple of feet, is on the other side of the airport. I guess that in 1946 the measuring was not that accurate.

That's my story, and I'm sticking to it!!!!!

At 4am. 10/3/15 we had 4.3 ins. that was from 6.30 pm. the day before 10/2/15. Let it rain LET IT RAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!

My gauge is when the frogs ask for life jackets in the back yard. I told Remus they were working on the dam for a while this morning and will run all the water down river to keep it where they want it. We'll see how much we get when it stops raining. I hope all the creeks and run offs turn our way for a change without the sewage from Charlotte. It will good to get some water back in the lakes.

Emptied my gauge Fri. a.m as I left for that "W" thing. As of 10:00 a.m. today have 3.5 in it. Let it rain. Thats pretty close to 6 in. since this started last week. Wylie should start coming up this weekend for sure.

1.8" from yesterday at 7am thru today at 8 am
Lake Wylie near walmart

I talked to a man that lives on Wylie around lunch time today he says the lake has came up almost a foot in last 6 hours
that was around 12:30 pm 10=3=2015 so he must have ment it came up that much sense around 6:30
==let me clear myself !!! that is what the man that lives on Wylie said
who was he ? don't know== but he lives on Wylie == I was in his yard

how much rain did we get?? don't have a gage but when my giraffe shows back up I will measure from the ground to his =^2His
well I will measure up to his something and let you know later