Heavy rain today while we were out

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I just told you about the delicious fried chicken sandwich I had today. It was supposed to rain today, but my daughter apparently thought it was unlikely since there was only a 40% chance. She was wrong. It was raining steadily when we got done eating. Because she can't get her cast wet, she waited in the pickup area and I went to the car to pick her up. By the time we got back to town (about 4 miles later), it was raining so heavily that the roads were flooding. As we got to the center of town, we could see the manhole cover in the center of the main intersection was lifted up from the water pouring out. We went down to the street behind us (all one way in alternating directions) and drove to the end and the manhole cover there was also lifted up and water was pouring out. We have a flooding situation in that area from the street we were on and south for two blocks. We live one block north of that intersection. Higher elevation, so no flooding. But, lots of water running down the gutters. I parked close to the sidewalk for her, but went in to get a plastic bag so she could cover her cast to come in. We were both wet, but at least the thunderstorm part of it didn't seem to be happening over us. But, it took a bunch of small branches off the trees on the way into town, so there was definitely wind. (Had to resize the image twice for it to be uploaded.)