A Late Spring Downpour

Had some heavy weather earlier this AM. My weather radio started going off around 4 AM and kept going off as the storm got closer. Somehow I half slept through it. I heard lots of thunder and rain. When I did get out of bed, here is what I saw. So I shot some pictures, decided that I wasn't gonna be mowin today, so I went back to bed and got up for good around 9:30. Been a while since I've been able to sleep in.

This is a shot of my back yard.

This is the neighbor's yard on the south side of mine.

This is the neighbor's yard on the north side of mine.

This a shot from my garage door.

There is a water way down the back of the yards on my side of the street. Every few houses there is a catch basin. My yard has a catch basin. A tile goes tween my house & the neighbor's to catch basin in the street. From there it goes across the street to a huge ditch behind the houses and to the retention pond about a mile south of me. I live in the lower (elevation) part of town. All the water comes this way toward the retention ponds

I took this photo about an hour ago.

I looked at some photos I took the last time the yard flooded. I think the water was deeper this time. When I went outside I had 2.2" in my www.cocorahs.net rain gauge. I'm the only orange dot in OH on today's precipitation map. I think most of it fell in about 1 to 1-1/4 hours.

A tornado watch just came in. Already a flash flood warning up. And another round of storms with potential downpours, etc are expected for later today. An exciting weather day, if you like that sort of thing. Maybe I can get some decent shots of lightning.