ZOMG! STORM + FLASHFLASHBOOM + FLOOD

[winterbadger]

I woke up to a massive thunderstorm this morning. Which was cool and all, what with the huge amounts of lightning and thunder and the torrential rain that was making so much noise sheeting down the windows.

Except that noise wasn't just rain, as I discovered when my neighbour across the hall came and pounded on my door and said, "You might want to move your car--the street is flooded!"

And indeed it was!

The flood waters went down fairly fast, our stream across the street returning (mostly) to its banks, but I worry about how much more of the park across the stream got dragged away and how many more of our shallowly rooted big trees over there will come crashing down in the next big wind... :-(

I'm also going to take a shower, as I don't know what was in that water, but the less time it's on my legs, the better, in all likelihood.

Comments

[ticktockmary.livejournal.com]

WOW, that's some serious water! I was driving up to Tenleytown and it was pretty intense there too. I heard Beach Drive was a nightmare.

[peaceful-fox.livejournal.com]

Yikes! We haven't had a storm like that here in ages and ages. We really need rain - we are having wildfires. It's amazing. When we do have rain I bet we do have flooding!

I am glad that you and your car are okay.