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Another round of flooding
August 21, 2008I really hoped that last year would be the last time I'd have to wade through water filling up parts of our city and area.
But as I sat on my couch Monday night and watched the thunderstorm literally spin in place on the radar for what seemed like hours, I knew that the things I'd have to see in the morning would rival the flooding from last year.
Actually, I think it was worse. I heard story after story about people waking up the sounds of water rushing through their house. I mean, that is like Hollywood bad dream movie kind of stuff.
I cannot even begin to fathom what it would be like to experience that sort of thing.
The biggest reason I think this was a worse flood event was nobody knew this was coming. Last year, in Wranglers Retreat and the East Side for that matter, people had hours if not days of advance notice.
This was an overnight event... and as it started getting bad, KFDX 3 didn't even break in with any kind of weather warning or update. Flash Flood warnings don't get broadcasted out like a Tornado would or anything.
In the span of probably 2 hours... it went from raining hard, to flowing water over everything and just kept coming up and up. The power of nature on display for sure.
It is not something that I will soon forget nor will I ever take for granted the power of a thunderstorm.
Posted by Jason Palmer at 10:33 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)
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we get flash flood warnings here. just like tornados. but we also have blizzards and heat warnings. best of all worlds...
