This /\ /\ made all the difference with Matthew (as far as heaviest precip being on the west side). I live near Fayetteville, NC and watched what that can do first hand
Dewpoints are inching up. Low humidity been the good and the bad about our heat so far...it does give relief in the shade and when there is a breeze, but it is drying everything up so fast.
I imagine the folks back in 1927 said the same thing about their March storm. 24" here in Fayetteville. These epic storms do happen here, just decades apart
I have been communicating with my brother in Wilmington, and it is BAD in that area. He has never seen flooding this bad in that area, and he has been through many hurricanes down there.