Day 4,064 —1 Runs until the Huron 100: Flooding and a Tornado Scare—

 

So far it has been a stressful summer, but I thought there would be a chance it might slow down today with both of my kids out of the house. I was hoping to finish packing and possibly have some time to do other things. I still have class tonight and have to do some homework, but that shouldn’t take me that long.

         I was playing with my daughter when it got dark and I got the tornado warning. It's the same time that it hit before. I normally wouldn’t pay much attention, but now I was on high alert, checking the news and watching the path of the storm.

         By the time I got my son at 4 p.m., it looked like everything was clear and there was no reason to be alarmed, but then my bathroom started flooding. Within a 5-minute window, it went from being dry to water rushing in through a few different directions. I used every available towel in the house to block off the points of entry and used a cup to bail water into a bucket. I wasn’t sure when it was going to stop. My weather app suggested it could be raining until 6 this morning. The scariest part was that I didn’t hear a lot of rain come down. It was dry one moment and flooding the next.

         At 8:45 p.m. the flood warning would expire, but before that, it slowed down and I didn’t need to bail any longer. I started packing for the race. I spent a lot of time during the week to make sure I had enough dry towels to bring to the race, but I had to use them all to keep the basement dry.

This morning I saw another tree down, but nothing big. I read that a tornado was down in Chesterfield, but I haven’t seen anything about damage besides trees being uprooted.