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tornadoes and floods
Jul. 22nd, 2010 10:38 pmThis morning, the local news site reported the following:
July 22, 2010 6:20 a.m. | A new batch of showers and thunderstorms is moving into the area, bringing with it the possibility of 1-3 inches of rain by tonight, according to Craig Koplien at TMJ4. The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood watch for much of the state - from Prairie du Chien to Green Bay - but not for the immediate Milwaukee area.
At 4:55, a coworker and I heard tornado sirens. Everyone in the building went to shelters, and then the power went out for about fifteen minutes. A little bit later, the rain let up and I went home. The yard was in good shape, and no water came in the windows. That surprised me because when I was watching it at work, the rain was coming across the parking lot horizontally. It did knock down my rock garden, though. We had near-constant thunder and lightning for about an hour and a half.
A couple of hours later, Cyn saw on facebook, that there was trouble. "Storms pound city, snarl traffic," the headlines read. I43 and US45 are closed. An underpass on I43 was under several feet of water. From the news, "Many streets are under water, "Every underpass is blocked off with water. Numerous spots on the northwest side are simply impassable." There are stories of dive teams being sent out. That's a bad sign. And manymany basements were flooded, many with sewage backups.
The storm front stretched east to west, and was moving east-southeast. In other words, the front was moving sideways over us, rather than across us quickly. Some rainfall totals were over five inches, by 6:00. As of 9:00, some gauges read 7.5 inches.
One busy intersection that was not underwater, is now blocked by a sinkhole.
July 22, 2010 6:20 a.m. | A new batch of showers and thunderstorms is moving into the area, bringing with it the possibility of 1-3 inches of rain by tonight, according to Craig Koplien at TMJ4. The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood watch for much of the state - from Prairie du Chien to Green Bay - but not for the immediate Milwaukee area.
At 4:55, a coworker and I heard tornado sirens. Everyone in the building went to shelters, and then the power went out for about fifteen minutes. A little bit later, the rain let up and I went home. The yard was in good shape, and no water came in the windows. That surprised me because when I was watching it at work, the rain was coming across the parking lot horizontally. It did knock down my rock garden, though. We had near-constant thunder and lightning for about an hour and a half.
A couple of hours later, Cyn saw on facebook, that there was trouble. "Storms pound city, snarl traffic," the headlines read. I43 and US45 are closed. An underpass on I43 was under several feet of water. From the news, "Many streets are under water, "Every underpass is blocked off with water. Numerous spots on the northwest side are simply impassable." There are stories of dive teams being sent out. That's a bad sign. And manymany basements were flooded, many with sewage backups.
The storm front stretched east to west, and was moving east-southeast. In other words, the front was moving sideways over us, rather than across us quickly. Some rainfall totals were over five inches, by 6:00. As of 9:00, some gauges read 7.5 inches.
One busy intersection that was not underwater, is now blocked by a sinkhole.
Here is the account of the man who rescued the driver of a Cadillac Escalade from a sinkhole at Oakland and North Avenues.:
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