As I made my way home today I noticed that Poquonnock Plains Park was flooded, and it appeared that the sidewalk over Fort Hill Brook, was washed out. When I arrived home it was fairly clear that something rather extraordinary had happened.
I had been aware that it was raining during the day, but apparently the rain was intense in our particular area. Normally Route 117 near the library is the first street in the area to flood, but it was dry as a bone when I got home from work. Not so our road, where the floodwaters, which had covered the road (you could see that they had risen several inches above the road surface by the detritus they left behind) were ever so slowly receding back towards the brook across the street.
It’s hard to capture the magnitude of the flooding, but you get an idea from this picture, taken several hours after the flooding crested. That driveway, obviously is normally dry, as is the flooded lawn. It’s been flooded there before, but never so deep as this. The dirt on the road was left there by the water. The road surface is several feet higher than the water level in the picture, so the flooding was fairly mammoth; dwarfing anything that’s happened on the street since I moved there, and that includes hurricanes.
One of my neighbors told me that we received over four inches of rain, as opposed to a little over an inch just about everywhere else. I didn’t know that intense rainfall could be so localized. As I write, however, it’s been over six hours since it rained. Thankfully, the weather forecast calls for the drought to end tomorrow, and to end again the day after that.
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