I saw 33 inches in 24 hours in 2001. 6 inches in 19 hours doesn’t sound so bad.
I guess it depends on the drainage.
We’re just not used to handling this much rain. Plus, the burn scars of the wildfires of recent years can’t absorb anything.
Are you speaking of tropical storm “Allison” that hit Houston in 2001? Never saw it rain that much in my entire life, 24 people died in that one. Downtown was flooded and many garages were underground, folks took elevators down not knowing how much water had flooded. Needless to say some drowned when the doors opened. Awful!
“I guess it depends on the drainage.”
You have no idea. It took me 6 hours to get home from the IBM facility near Boulder to Longmont, 12 miles. The St. Vrain river is out of it’s banks and is several hundred yards wide about 1/2 mile from my home. Jamestown has been basically wiped out, Lyons sewage plant has been ruptured as well as the dam there and the people have no electricity or phone service. There’s nothing here to stop the water since the fires.
To all the smart-asses out there, people have died because of flash floods. I made fun of the river when I moved here from Tennessee saying that the creek on my farm was bigger (and it was) but I’m going to shut up from now on.
I’m just glad to be home.
Oh, and you people out there that are compulsive communicators, put your damned phone down and drive your damned cars you idiots.