Pappy,
When I lived in Manassas Virginia back in the 80's, I lived with my sister and her husband in a log cabin approximately 265 feet off of the banks of the Bull Run River. Every time it would rain, the water came clear up the back yard and into the basement of the house. Several times it came up to the top step leading down into the basement from inside.
In 1972, when hurricane Agnes hit Manassas, that same cabin was completely under water.
We are miles away from the Mississippi River, so I do not worry too much about floods until a police or rescue worker pulls up and orders an evacuation. This is how it looked after hurricane Rita, and the rains we have now causing it are not even a hurricane.
God is in the storm though, so I am not too concerned.
IN Christ,
Ron
