i've been through most every storm through here over the last decade or so... well, two nearing... Floyd was ugly- really bad. the fresh water runoff wasn't a big deal- was gone in a few hours... it's when the rivers started backing up that the trouble began. it was flooded everywhere... curiously, I can see the Inter-Coastal Waterway from my house- which plants me within throwing distance from the ocean (almost literally), and it has never flooded here... ten miles inland? not a good place to be... where i am at, though, and the Sound being right there with it's tidal pulls- it yanks all that water out twice a day.