I wish you could have sent an inch of that to us. Most of the rain either went west of us (you) or to the east*, or north or south of us, too. Looking at my impromptu "gauges", after things cleared for good, it looks like we totaled 3/4" or so, so, that only helps our drought a little. It's better than nothing, but the question is whether or not the spigot will turn off completely the way it often does for us, in early July.
*There's evidently been plenty of rain in the majority of the Ohio River watershed: The Ohio River @ Shawneetown, IL, is actually at minor flood stage.
Wifey heard of a significant train derailment from one of her friends who live not too far away from the location of the incident.
What a mess! But, very luckily(!), no one was hurt, no hazardous chemicals were involved, etc. Just think: This could well happen to, say, The City Of New Orleans passenger train (nod to Arlo Guthrie), or to a train carrying nasty stuff and in an urban area to boot. :-(
I’ll bet this will still take a pretty penny to clean up, scrap rail cars and / or the locomotives damaged beyond reasonable repair, salvage or replace goods on said cars, and so on.
There were some severe t-storm warnings in that area at various times, the last day or so — I wonder if the tree was downed by a storm?
Given the advances in drone technology, it wouldn’t take all that much to have a cheap drone fly at just over stopping distance out in front of a train. Maybe 5 drones per train — at any given time: One drone scouting, one headed to / from scouting position, two on charge, and one in reserve. Once set up, the whole thing could likely be run by AI. Maybe bring in new defense companies as partners: I’ll bet the program could be “piggybacked” for all sorts of developmental data and such.