For more than an hour, the rain was relentless and the visibility poor. Water filled streams, ditches, and front yards. At last, Near the town of Sardis, I could see a bit of lighter sky ahead and started thinking that moving beyond the downpoor was a possibility. It was but not just yet. Just past Sardis, the rain started pounding even worse and, even though I knew that lighter sky was still out there, the rain was falling so hard locally that there wasn't a hint of it visually. The rain did lighten up considerably in a few miles but continued sporadically all the way to Savannah.