(February 24, 2016 at 1:39 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote: In order for the floodwaters to have covered the mountain in that time, it would have had to rain 17.55 inches of rain per hour that entire time. No flash flood? The heaviest sustained rainfall on record is Tropical Cyclone Denise, at 71" in a 24-hour period, or 2.95 inches per hour, back in 1966.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_we...cords#Rain
The record rainfall for 1 hour is 13.8".
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