“We had a very, very heavy cell move over us, and it just unloaded and did not let up,” Mr. Miller said. Mr. Miller said the episode equaled or perhaps exceeded the July 2016 flooding in which two people died after more than six inches of rain fell in two hours. The flooding in 2016 caused catastrophic damage, but 96 percent of the businesses downtown rebuilt and reopened. To see the damage on Sunday was “heartbreaking and devastating,” Mr. Miller said. “I was putting sandbags in front of the shop doors, watching the street flooding out front, thinking, Wow, I don’t think those street drains are keeping up.”

Source: New York Times May 28, 2018 00:13 UTC