Wet and Wild
By: Mr. Wilson on
June 12, 2008
Things were actually fairly quiet here at 625 Elm Street. The ol' rain gauge clocked in at around 2". Normally that would be quite a bit, but compared to what many folks received, we may have been on the low end. The strangest thing about the evening for me was the lack of wind. I don't know what things were like around town, but at our house I'm not sure if the winds ever gusted more than 30 miles per hour. In fact, the wind was calm or nearly calm throughout much of the evening. That made the skies all that much eerier.
What did y'all think about the extensive use of the sirens last night? Personally, I think it was the right move. There were enough ominous factors at play to justify keeping the sirens running. Sometimes I think that emergency management services cry wolf too soon and too frequently. (Or too late. During a storm earlier this season emergency management broke into the television broadcast to issue a severe thunderstorm warning for a storm that was already well on its way exiting the county.) But I support last night's decision 100%.
By the way, if any of you have photos from last night or today, be sure to share them. You can either post them somewhere and give us a link, or e-mail them to me at mrwilson at lincolnite dot com.
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I was watching the “map in motion” on weather.com and making dinner when I thought I heard the sirens. Poked the head out and figured it was a train noise. Heard it again a few minutes later so we switched to local news and decided to head to the basement.
We live about as far north as you can get in Lincoln and we had terrible wind for awhile. It blew over my very large grill snapped a small tree down the street from us and striped the siding off a neighbors house. Add the that lots of rain (I heard that a area near us got over 3.5 inches) it made for an interesting night in the basement. 😊
I was out with a friend, storm chasing (I know, I know…dangerous and all that). LOTS of rain and cars floating and some cool clouds and a great view at one point of sheets of rain falling out of the clouds in NE Lincoln. We live in Uni Place, so traveled northeast, then back and south to 56th & Hiway 2, then north again. Amazing stuff.
I returned to find a river flowing through my basement, happily towards the sump pump.
My 16 year old got a great driving lesson trying to come home on flooded streets. She did well.
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