What was left of Ike came to visit my part of St. Louis county, and deposited about half a foot of rain in
some spots. My yard only got about four inches, but it all fell between 5:30 and 9:30 am Sunday morning.
Later that day, the remains of Ike arrived in Chicago -- after they'd already had about 20 hours of continuous rain from a stalled front. My brother who lives in the north loop told me their 36 hour rainfall total was over a foot in some places.
Al Skierkiewicz and I exchanged a few messages that day, while each of us was vacuuming seepage from his respective basement. I think Al stayed at that task for most of a day, while I got off easier with only about four hours of shop-vac duty.
The good news: my area had relatively minor wind damage and no loss of electric power. Even though we got very wet, our Ike troubles were negligible when compared with those in Texas.
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)