Actually, the deluge is already here, even though the center of the tropical depression formerly known as Hurricane Debby is still well south of the North Carolina border. The rain has been heavy for a while, and there is some wind, but not a whole lot of it.

Nevertheless, Central Virginia is currently under a Tornado Watch:

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED TORNADO WATCH 615 UNTIL 7 AM EDT FRIDAY WHICH REPLACES A PORTION OF TORNADO WATCH 614. THE NEW WATCH IS VALID FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS

IN VIRGINIA THE NEW WATCH INCLUDES 6 COUNTIES…

The internet went out for a few hours, then came back on a little while ago. So be advised that I may disappear without warning. Knowing the phone company, if enough water comes down, the outage may last for several days.

All day the rain has glided, wave and mist and dream,
Drenching the gorse and heather, a gossamer stream
Too light to stir the acorns that suddenly
Snatched from their cups by the wild south-westerly
Pattered against the tent and our upturned dreaming faces.
And we stretched out, unbuttoning our braces,
Smoking a Woodbine, darning dirty socks,
Reading the Sunday papers — I saw a fox
And mentioned it in the note I scribbled home;
And we talked of girls and dropping bombs on Rome,
And thought of the quiet dead and the loud celebrities
Exhorting us to slaughter, and the herded refugees;
As of ourselves or those whom we
For years have loved, and will again
Tomorrow maybe love; but now it is the rain
Possesses us entirely, the twilight and the rain.

— From “All Day It Has Rained” by Alun Lewis (1941)

Alun Lewis was killed fighting in Burma in 1944.