Oh- That Storm!

We have experienced all sorts of new Louisville places and events in the 1.5 weeks since arriving, but the massive thunder, lightening and RAIN storm somehow was not all a big deal for us! It happened last Tuesday morning (Aug. 4) while we were waking up- still groggy from all our travels. It rained HARD for a couple hours and when we checked the radar all we could see was heavy rain. The lightening and thunder was almost continuous and the building across the road had water POURING out of the downspouts for a couple hours after the storm. As it turns out it was the largest rain storm for Louisville in history- 6.5 inches of rain in one go and then another inch in the second storm.

The sort of cool thing about the storm is that we went to look at houses that afternoon- 4 out of 5 had water in the basement! Talk about a good test for basement waterproofing! As we went out to meet our realtor we were in the second wave of the storm- in Dad's big King Ranch truck. We could go through puddles and water no problem- and there was water everywhere! At a bus stop the whole group of people there had their umbrellas open in front of them to prevent cars splashing them! All were soaked!

I guess Louisville has had odd weather this past year- a massive wind storm, ice storm, an earth quake and now this historic storm that flooded many homes! We heard of people with up to 2 feet of water in their finished basements- not fun. Some people were stranded in their vehicles from flash flooding, a huge library lost 1 million dollars in books and lightening strikes caused some fires! I guess we should have turned on the TV news- maybe we would have been more "impressed" as the storm went through the city.