After a night of house-rattling thunderstorms, we woke up on Monday morning to rain. Lots of rain.
Our patio was the first sign that this wasn't a run-of-the-mill storm. When we stepped outside, rain water covered our feet.
Reports of flooding came in, so Scott left for his commute with caution in mind. He saw this overflow on his usual route (before turning and going a different way):
In the meantime, the kids and I found out that school was closed. Many of the roads were impassable, and the busses couldn't exactly leave the district office.
NO SCHOOL!!! Ben and Travis dropped everything to look for frogs (they were loud in the desert behind our house!).
The Phoenix area had record-breaking rainfall-- they had never recorded this much rain in one day! This normally bone-dry wash (just down the street) measured 4.8 inches of rain in 3 hours:
Photos from our neighborhood-- water rushing through a walkway and a thoroughly soaked fairway:
Down the hill, many roads looked like this:
And two freeways basically turned into rivers.
Thankfully, no one was seriously hurt... except maybe this seal.
