Here in the very SW corner of Missouri we got slammed hard for about 12 hours on Monday evening/night. Every "wave" of the storm hit us, except the baseball sized hail (that one missed us by less than a mile). I had a bolt of lightening strike right outside my back door during a calm part of the storm and it took out my computer, modem, 2 cordless phones and blew out 3 light bulbs. Thank God I wasn't on the phone at the time. About 9 inches of rain somehow means 10 feet of water coming out of the hills. My normally dry field still has running water in it and I just got my fence replaced today. The water was OVER the fence and bent the posts, taking down a good sized section of the fence. I've been here all my life (30 years) and I've never once seen the highways closed because of flooding. Thank God all animals are ok, just scared out of their minds. I just got my new modem from the phone company today and my computer's going to be repaired next week.
Here's a pic. This is a low water bridge close to my house. There really is a bridge under all that water, I promise. If you look close, near the railroad crossing, you can see the dark line where the water had crested during the night/early morning.
