Chris's Corner - Hurricane Helene Edition

Radar estimates are definitely off on this event, 25% to 40% off from what I can tell.

More systems on the horizon. It might seem like a lot all at once but this is the best thing heading into winter, saturating the ground from the lower and central plains through our area.

6.34” & counting in Festus, MO.

2" since midnight,running total of 6.66" so far in O'Fallon MO.

Good catch on the storm total accumulation, I hadn't looked at it yet. It's usually pretty accurate at my house, but is showing 5 inches where the gauge is showing 7.

I'm sitting at an unofficial 9.25" in West Bloomsdale. Crazy. I wouldn't be shocked if it was more, I had the wife empty out the filled up gauge once yesterday.

Spot on there. We might be doing this all over in 2 weeks too. And the rainfall amounts sound more like the snow amts that we used to get twice a year and now we get once every few years, lol

3.8" yesterday and 4.7" this morning.

This is nothing new …. In 1982 the two days before the blizzard we had flooding rains ….. I will agree it seems to happen more frequently though

I just love how flooding rainstorms will always shift directly into the Metro but snowstorms avoid us like the plague...

Had a couple areas on the driveway where the rocks were washed away and ran across the driveway creating a rut and deposited rocks down into the field a bit. So I drove up to look at the area MoDOT had worked on several months ago and the ditch had some water in it and it was flowing under my driveway where it was supposed to go in the ditch to the spot where it goes down the field into the pond so all that was working. Apparently the rest of it is just 'the lay of the land' from the road downhill and leans toward my driveway and the driveway flattens out so that creates kind of the 'running board' for the runoff. More work to do. Might need some 3-4" rocks along the edge of the driveway.😪

Yes. At Tesson & Kennerly. 12”+ and a flooded basement.

I emptied my gauge yesterday afternoon with 3.5” in it, but we have gotten a lot since then. I’ll check when I get home. 

My surgery was successful. I was told by beforehand to expect to stay overnight. But everything went so well I'm back home, which is much preferred.

But driving back home at about 11 AM I was surprised/angered by the large number of nitwits driving down the highway in the pouring rain with no lights on. I wish had the authority to give them all very expensive tickets.