Looks like Waples Mill, Birdfoot and several other roads are closed at the creek crossing. Also many residences are being evacuated because of high water. Several people rescued from cars, one at Centerville rd creek crossing in Chantilly. Car is so far off road they are going to leave it until water goes down.

I just don't get Fairfax county sometimes, inch of rain or snow and there is an evacuation plan. Well I live on a second floor so I will sleeping safe tonight.

There are some buildings\townhouses in the Huntington area that have water up to the second stoop (step) so they are asking those people to voluntarily leave and go to the Mount Vernon Rec Center. They have setup a Fastran bus to transport people.

"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."

FYI:

Police are writing tickets to people going around road closure cones; Failure to obey a highway sign.

just wondering, why are you so concerned about this?

Fairfax country government just released a statement on their website saying we are .25in of rain away from an excessive rain tax.

LOLNOVA Wrote:
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> Fairfax country government just released a
> statement on their website saying we are .25in of
> rain away from an excessive rain tax.

Let the rain pay the rain tax. I pay the Homer tax.

(and +1, btw)

Fairfax didn't-doesn't care about impervious surface stuff. Over the years I've seen mudslides and water falls where they let houses be built and shouldn't have. trees cut. Didn't use to flood out. Even the schools which are public buildings have allowed illegal dumping affecting stormwater run-off.

Isn't that Huntingdon neighborhod a frequent flooder? What does it need NOLA style levees? Why not make it a park and use Gerry's penny for affordable housing plus his foreclusure plan mony to swap the houses there and make it a park?

Is that a place that didn't use to flood before over developemenet?

I have to agree. The County does seem a little lax when it comes to building in flood plains. There is a little set back from the creek but it's mainly flat land.

Why not just build in the creek?
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Yah, that neighborhood off Huntington Avenue is along Cameron Run, and seems to flood every 2 to 3 years. They're pretty run down houses, and I'm amazed that folks can afford them given what they're probably being hit with in terms of flood insurance coverage.