All anybody wants to talk about today is the weather.
Several communities in East Central Illinois were bailing out this morning as they geared up for the possibility of more flooding later today.
"It looks like another round of these cluster showers and thunderstorms," on tap for later today, said meteorologist Greg Soulje.
The latest round Tuesday night caused flooded roads, power outages and lightning strikes to homes.
"The atmosphere is still primed in much the same way it has been for the past 36 hours," Soulje said about 9 a.m. today. "There's a front nearby with deep tropical moisture, a strong jet stream pattern and an upper air disturbance. All that means additional severe weather, heavy downpours of rain and the likelihood of ongoing flooding issues."
We were very relieved to have a basement when the sirens went off last night, as our old house didn't have one. We only spent about an hour down there, but the wireless internet was working so we could check radar (and election returns and blogs!).
I also thought WDWS did a good job with the weather updates - striking a good balance between alarm and calm.
Some pictures of Monticello Flooding:
The readable part of the sign in the first picture says "Monticello Parks and Recreation Project". My guess is that the water is about 6ft+ high there. There's more to that sign, but most of it is underwater.
Panorama of a flooded intersection in the country near Allerton.
The picture below shows a rather large amount of debris pushed into the trampoline when the water was a few feet higher. That's a river in someone's backyard on the outskirts of town.
Here's some cellphone video from near downtown Champaign after Friday's flash flooding.
WDWS and WAND are to be commended. WCIA last night, as they were last Friday night, was more interested in their regular programming.....Is Entertainment Tonight really that important when Tornado's are in the area?
I could see this happening around here if we get more rain this weekend . . .
Shouldn't family reunion videos stay in the family John? :-)
Ha! I could have seen my brother and I doing that during our formative years in Homer.
Do you have a golf car? :-)
On my way to work this morning, I saw whitecaps.
In a cornfield.
Good thing YouTube didn't exist when my brothers were growing up. The last thing they would have needed was this type of inspiration...
Very funny, part of me is debating whether or not to show it to the adolescent who fell at the skate park last weekend and chipped his elbow, then freaked out when I told him he probably shouldn't ride his board for at least 2 weeks while it healed up...the last thing those children will need is this type of inspiration...(somedays, he makes his uncles very proud...and makes his mother tear her hair out.)
(This same child wants to take his friends down to Grandpa's farm so they can go snipe hunting. Yes, he knows snipes don't exist...he's hoping his friends are unaware of that fact.)
WAND's severe weather coverage is excessive and extremely irritating. Yes, I want to watch my regular programs and NO, I don't want excessive weather coverage. If I want that, I'll flip over to TWC.
Got 'im!
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Glock21 Op/Ed