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In my part of town there is usually rain in September, but since midnight the whole city has had more than its share. More than 2 inches most places. It's the most rain officially in Phoenix in 24 hours in 80 or 90 years. They are asking people to stay off the roads for a while because of flash flooding. Both of the interstate highways through town are closed in places. From the radar it looks like the worst may be over in an hour or so, but only after another round of heavy rain.
My house is fine. The street out front is running with water, but no worse than any heavy rain. I did much of the landscaping in my backyard to keep rain water from turning it into a lake. In today's extreme case, it looks like my efforts were well worth it. The first few years I lived here water would get deep enough to get up on the patio, but there isn't any pooling there today.
The morning weather guy on the TV station I'm watching got forced off the highway by flooding and the surface street he was on was so deep that his car stalled. Where my sister used to live, any heavy rain would put four inches of water in the main east-west street nearby. It was probably worse this morning.
ETA: I had an emergency house repair to make yesterday evening. It was tricky enough that I almost put it off till this morning. This morning I'm not sure I could make it to the hardware store (at least for a few hours yet) to get the parts I needed. Glad I got it done last night.
My house is fine. The street out front is running with water, but no worse than any heavy rain. I did much of the landscaping in my backyard to keep rain water from turning it into a lake. In today's extreme case, it looks like my efforts were well worth it. The first few years I lived here water would get deep enough to get up on the patio, but there isn't any pooling there today.
The morning weather guy on the TV station I'm watching got forced off the highway by flooding and the surface street he was on was so deep that his car stalled. Where my sister used to live, any heavy rain would put four inches of water in the main east-west street nearby. It was probably worse this morning.
ETA: I had an emergency house repair to make yesterday evening. It was tricky enough that I almost put it off till this morning. This morning I'm not sure I could make it to the hardware store (at least for a few hours yet) to get the parts I needed. Glad I got it done last night.