Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Historic

Monday night it started raining in St. Louis. When it was over, the area had set a new record for the wettest day every recorded. The previous one-day record was set on August 20, 1915, when 6.85 inches fell. This time we got more than 8 inches (and as much as 11 inches in some places) in a period from midnight to 7 am.

The worst of the rain happened along the Interstate 70 corridor. but all four of the highways heading into downtown (I-70, I-64, I-55, and I-44) had at least one closure because of the flooding. As you can imagine, many things were affected. Neighborhoods close to rivers, streams, and creeks reported major damage.

Twitter/St. Louis County Police Department

Fortunately, other than the sewers having trouble handling all the water, the area Hubby Tony and I live in came through unscathed.

Five years ago: Concentrated Banana Goodness

24 comments:

  1. No problems at my house either. But my sister in South City had the sewer back up and had about 4 inches of water in her finished basement.

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  2. My mother used to say: never choose to live near a river (flooding) or a forest (fires). Well, fires can start anywhere, but living near a body of water in these days of climate change - is a big risk.

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    1. A couple of years ago they revised the area's flood maps to include a larger area. And then you have people like Mike's sister in the comment above that live nowhere near a body of water, but still have an issue when there's an intense rain.

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  3. Just coming over to see how y'all were doing! Glad you are safe!!!

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  4. Those pictures are heartbreaking, water can be so destructive. I'm glad you didn't personallly suffer from the flooding.

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    1. With the location of our condo there's no way water could affect us unless it was an issue with the sewers not being able to handle volume or sewage backing up.

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  5. Glad you are ok I was thinking about you -Christine cmlk79.blogspot.com

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  6. I was watching the coverage of all the flooding there on the news last night. So scary and sad for the people most affected. I'm glad you were spared the worst of it!

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    1. I understand that some problems (like a flooded transit station) will drag on for weeks, but for the most part the water is receding as quickly as it rose.

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  7. I thought of you when I read this. Glad you emerged unscathed.

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  8. Good to read you are fine. But it must be terrible in many years. In south India , rain has caused havoc in many places. There are problems if there is less rain and problems if there is too much of it. And we have to accept what comes our way.

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    1. I think your last sentence about acceptance is the key.

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  9. I wondered about you when I saw about the flooding on the news.

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  10. My comment has vanished. Is it in the spam folder?

    God bless.

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    1. It was! Sorry. I hate it when Blogger does that.

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    2. The other day I found myself in the spam folder ...

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  11. That certainly was a downpour. We were lucky, too, no flooding or rain damage.

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    1. I'm glad to hear that you didn't have any issues.

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  12. Gosh that looks dreadful. Glad you escaped unscathed.

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