It started raining overnight. Hard. Big storms. Lots of lightening and thunder so loud and constant that nobody slept for much of the night. We made it to school drop-off during a short lull in the storms, but it was pouring again when we got to work. By the time we picked the kids up for lunch (they're spending the last 3 school day afternoons at home with the Gramma, since they just "nap" at school then anyway), the shortcut home was flooded and impassable, and we heard stories of similar situations all over town - even over highway 61S. Mudslides and trees down and roads closed everywhere! The bridge to our house, which usually has a tiny trickle of a stream running under it, had water nearly up to the concrete and the soccer fields beyond had a few feet of standing water (based on the height of the water on the goals). At our house, the sunroom flooded (thank goodness Gramma was there to do damage control - poor Gramma, it's always something when she's here!) and our neighbor's pond overflowed, but we didn't sustain any lasting damage (it's good to live on TOP of the bluffs around here...)
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| Paxton Road, just south of Agape |
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| The bridge that separates the city from the county, next to Piggly Wiggly (this photo was snapped at the end of the work day, when the water had receded back to the span of the bridge and was no longer flooding the fields beyond) |
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| Our neighbor's pond... |
This evening we learned that they got 16.5" of rain south of town (where the airport and highway 61S were so badly flooded, as well as a few other neighborhoods nearby). We estimate about 10" of rainfall at our house (the 5" rain gauge was filled to the brim twice). All in under 24 hours...
I've said it before and I'll say it again - it doesn't ever just rain here in the Deep South, it STORMS!
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I've never seen anything like it. Did you see the video I shared of mom and dad's road?
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