The rain had stopped by the time we closed down. My walk home takes me through a low-lying intersection about two blocks down from the library. It was flooded like I'd never seen it before. Even the yards to the sides of it were flooded. It proved impossible for me to get home without passing through cold, ankle-deep water. The street drains were working fine--the fantastic downpour was just too much for them to handle.
We got additional rain later that evening. The houses around here are elevated enough that they didn't flood, but I'm concerned that others in lower-lying parts of town may have done so. We didn't have any local wind damage or power outages that I've heard about so far.
I learned this morning that they had some appalling storm damage and loss of life in Mississippi to the east of us.
