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Heavy rain and the usual street flooding - June 2008

(one of my old ToledoTalk.com posts)

After a period of torrential rain, the usual roads flooded near our home in West Toledo. Photos were taken approximately between 7:40 p.m. and 8:40 p.m., June 25, 2008.

The above photo shows Douglas Rd between Carlita's Mexican-Italian restaurant and the Sunoco gas station at Douglas and Laskey. I saw a homeowner dump buckets of water out a side door.

Sylvania Ave at Buell Rd near DeVeaux Jr. High School. The race is on.



Sylvania Ave at Drummond Rd next to the little shopping plaza with the Family Dollar store, Auto Zone, and the new Fresh Market produce store.



Elmhurst Road just north of the intersection with Eastbrook and one block from Sylvania Ave.



Castleton Ave and Garrison Rd flooded by Elmhurst Elementary. Looks idyllic. I don't know if this is "usual" because I've not noticed it flooded before. Doesn't mean it hasn't flooded during other heavy rainstorms. Two boys on bicycles tried to ride through the water. One wiped out and got drenched. He said to his buddy, "Dude, what am I going to tell my Mom?"


More photos, radar images, and a precipitation analysis at flickr.com.

I wish I had a rain gauge installed in our yard. Just guessing, I'd say at least an inch of rain fell in West Toledo, which does not seem like enough to cause this much street flooding.

It rained some in the Toledo area earlier in the day on June 25, 2008. Here are rainfall totals for June 25, 2008 as reported by private weather stations at Wunderground.com :

Precip at area airports for June 25, 2008 :


Past Toledo Talk threads :

In 2006, we had at least three gully washers that produced street flooding in Toledo. I only remember one toad strangler in 2007.

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