Tuesday afternoon we saw a flash of lightning and almost immediately heard a humungous clap of thunder. Then it started to rain hard. This kept up all night with only sporadic breaks. We really didn't get to sleep until after one in the morning.
Whenever we woke up, it was more of the same - flash - crash, though time between flash and crash was often longer, 5-15 seconds.
When we got up the thunderstorm was still in progress, but with longer breaks between rains. However, the street in front of our house had water almost to the middle. As I watched it receded to only about quarter of the width of the street.
Meanwhile, our basement had streams of water in many places. My wife got out the Wet-N-Dry Vac and filled it on short order. She called me and I dumped it. Repeat, repeat, repeat.
There's more, but it's time to get ready to go to the official unveiling of the statue of Joe Gomer, a Tuskegee Airman, living in Duluth. Although it was scheduled for Wednesday and supposedly cancelled, about 90 people showed up. We hope its still on, there was nothing in today's Duluth News Tribune.
See later entries http://magree.blogspot.com/2012/06/duluth-super-storm-part-ii.html and http://magree.blogspot.com/2012/06/duluth-super-storm-part-iii-and.html.
