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Yeah, sort of. What was left of Tropical Storm Erin arrived last night.
It surged into what they are calling a "Land-based Tropical Cyclone". There were winds up to 85 miles per hour circulating just like the eye of a hurricane. They said downtown Watonga was all broken glass and Geary had buildings with roofs blown off. My town got over 8 inches in a couple hours, but one of my coworkers got over 13 inches!
There was nothing but water from porch to porch, you could not see where the road ended, which might explain that truck off in the ditch across the street. The next time I looked, the tree across the street had split and fallen on the truck.
I watched them pull it out of the ditch this morning and learned a lot of new words
We don't open till 12 noon on Sunday, but my boss called about 10am and said we were flooded and wanted us to come in early to start cleaning it up. We had shop vacs and mops and water on almost every ailse. It reached the paint store room, so all the bottom boxes were soaked and the back storeroom was a inch deep. ( I am glad I won't be there tomorow when the manager finds his soaked office.)
Then we opened, on one hand you have the EMERGENCY shoppers, who are only dangerous when you run out of stuff. But then you have the regular shoppers who act like they missed the whole storm thingy.
Some act annoyed that I am cleaning up or act surprised that there is water in the store. Others just seem oblivious to everything, at least till they step in it.
"Hey, did you know there is water on the floor over here?"
It surged into what they are calling a "Land-based Tropical Cyclone". There were winds up to 85 miles per hour circulating just like the eye of a hurricane. They said downtown Watonga was all broken glass and Geary had buildings with roofs blown off. My town got over 8 inches in a couple hours, but one of my coworkers got over 13 inches!
There was nothing but water from porch to porch, you could not see where the road ended, which might explain that truck off in the ditch across the street. The next time I looked, the tree across the street had split and fallen on the truck.
I watched them pull it out of the ditch this morning and learned a lot of new words
We don't open till 12 noon on Sunday, but my boss called about 10am and said we were flooded and wanted us to come in early to start cleaning it up. We had shop vacs and mops and water on almost every ailse. It reached the paint store room, so all the bottom boxes were soaked and the back storeroom was a inch deep. ( I am glad I won't be there tomorow when the manager finds his soaked office.)
Then we opened, on one hand you have the EMERGENCY shoppers, who are only dangerous when you run out of stuff. But then you have the regular shoppers who act like they missed the whole storm thingy.
Some act annoyed that I am cleaning up or act surprised that there is water in the store. Others just seem oblivious to everything, at least till they step in it.
"Hey, did you know there is water on the floor over here?"
Just jealous I guess...
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