We are experiencing some seriously heavy weather here…  Conditions are actually rivaling a long grade hurricane at times.  Even more dramatic - this is only the second storm of a string of 3 serious storms that are sweeping through the area.  So far we’ve had close to 3 and a half inches of rain in the last 24 hours in parts of the area.

I packed the boy up and took him to school - it was still open.  However out on my campus the power was out.  What’s really sad is that one of my classrooms has been designated a “secondary emergency operations center” and we’ve outfitted it with satellite TV and two large LCD TVs - but nobody thought to connect the room to any emergency power sources ….

I’ve since come back home, this time in daylight and could really see what havoc is being wrought in our area.  There’s lots of debris on the roads.  Our town rebuilt some curbs and driveways on a main road - and effectively managed to make drainage worse, the road is starting to flood when it never had before.

The storm drains on one of the streets are starting to overflow now - it’s actually kind of cool to see the water bubbling up from around the manhole covers.  Our street is slowly turning into a river itself.

I’ve setup our inhome storm center.  The computer’s up and running and I’ve got the local TV station on.  I’ve got to say I kinda like this, it’s amusing to me to watch the reporters standing in outside breathlessly “reporting” to the studio that “it’s really windy out here…  and raining very hard.” because we can’t look out the window and figure that out ourselves.