Not compared to everything else. Two weeks past the first stunning surge, the rains still come. Rocky Mount is, alas, a river town. It was built to utilize one waterfall that energized an 1840's cotton mill, and its poorest black residents and some of the richest white ones still live in sight of the Tar River. Never make fun of anything.
Storms here make tree surgery nearly as profitable as brain surgery.
The usual wind damage at least has a short attention span, grazing hard at our salad bar but basically just picking. Floyd's waters, more democratic, have noticed everything, and from the bottom up. To dive from a great height can be daunting to people over 50. You need tetanus and typhoid shots to even wade in it. This flood will press our region even farther back into its stubborn 19th century.