If you are following the news, you know that South Carolina\u2019s been hit with epic flooding this weekend<\/a>. \u00a0We are resisting the urge to go out looking for too much trouble<\/a>, so I refer you to the wonders of other parts of the internet for the big dramatic photos. \u00a0Meanwhile, a tutorial on why we are inundated so dramatically, when there\u2019s not even a real hurricane experience going on or anything.<\/p>\n Because I live on high ground, even as the state is descended into a true emergency, our street has fewer puddles than usual. \u00a0South Carolina gets storms \u2014 intense rain that drops in a giant bucket in a matter of minutes, or sometimes hours or days. \u00a0The stormwater systems are optimized for moving the odd deluge out to sea in one big gulp, except of course for the amusing puddle system that gives us something to talk about in the hot, 105% humidity mugginess that follows a heavy storm.<\/p>\n What we don\u2019t get is the kind of steady wetness for weeks on end that\u2019s killing all the drought-resistant cultivars and causing mushrooms to cover even the reputable lawns:<\/p>\nWe Don\u2019t Get This Weather<\/h2>\n