Like many areas of the midwest, where I live has been hit pretty hard with rains, flooding, etc.
I snapped these 6 photos last night. They are all of the storm front rolling toward my house. The elapsed time from the first photo to the last photo is probably only 4 or 5 minutes. This storm was moving FAST. 3 of the photos show the south end of the storm front, which was no more than a mile or two south of my house. Those are the first 3 photos I took, and consequently the brightest images. The other 3 photos show a view straight west. It was bizarre to see the clouds so bright above a black strip of sky. None of my photos captured any of the lightning, but it was non-stop. These photos were taken at roughly 6:45pm last evening. Normally at that time the sun is still pretty bright in the sky. By 7pm it was pitch black outside and all sorts of debris was pelting the west wall of our house.
No damage to my house. The soybean field is under roughly 3 feet of water, I'm guessing the depth of the water, but the river overflowed, the bridge on the nearby road is completely underwater, and the soybean field looks like a lake. As soybeans stand about 2.5' tall, I know the water is deeper than that! My house sits up high on a ridge, but I know of some neighborhoods that are completely underwater. Many of the rivers and streams breached their banks. There are 2 ways to get to my property and both roads were under water. One was impassible, the other could be driven through with a SUV or truck, but I would not have attempted to do it in a small car.
I snapped these 6 photos last night. They are all of the storm front rolling toward my house. The elapsed time from the first photo to the last photo is probably only 4 or 5 minutes. This storm was moving FAST. 3 of the photos show the south end of the storm front, which was no more than a mile or two south of my house. Those are the first 3 photos I took, and consequently the brightest images. The other 3 photos show a view straight west. It was bizarre to see the clouds so bright above a black strip of sky. None of my photos captured any of the lightning, but it was non-stop. These photos were taken at roughly 6:45pm last evening. Normally at that time the sun is still pretty bright in the sky. By 7pm it was pitch black outside and all sorts of debris was pelting the west wall of our house.
No damage to my house. The soybean field is under roughly 3 feet of water, I'm guessing the depth of the water, but the river overflowed, the bridge on the nearby road is completely underwater, and the soybean field looks like a lake. As soybeans stand about 2.5' tall, I know the water is deeper than that! My house sits up high on a ridge, but I know of some neighborhoods that are completely underwater. Many of the rivers and streams breached their banks. There are 2 ways to get to my property and both roads were under water. One was impassible, the other could be driven through with a SUV or truck, but I would not have attempted to do it in a small car.