How would you like 18" of rain in 6 hours?

tallyho8 · May 8, 2015

Today is the 20th anniversary of the record 18" of rain we got in 6 hours in Jefferson LA.
During this record setting 2 day rainstorm some areas got as much as 28" in 40 hours.
Luckily, we lived on some of the highest ground in the area and had no flooding.
'A rain of biblical proportions': The May 8-10, 1995 flood | NOLA.com

MinnesotaEric · May 8, 2015

tallyho8 said:
Today is the 20th anniversary of the record 18" of rain we got in 6 hours in Jefferson LA.
During this record setting 2 day rainstorm some areas got as much as 28" in 40 hours.
Luckily, we lived on some of the highest ground in the area and had no flooding.
'A rain of biblical proportions': The May 8-10, 1995 flood | NOLA.com

We had over 15" fall on one day back in 2007.

jimmyj · May 9, 2015

No thanks!!! Holy cow that's a lot of rain in a short time. The damages here would be huge.

D7E · May 10, 2015

We had total 17 inches of rain last summer ...that was enough of a disaster all crops were a write off !

Mace Canute · May 12, 2015

This May 30 will be the 54h anniversary of a 10 inch in one hour rainfall at Buffalo Gap, a hamlet 5 or 6 miles to the west and up the valley from the town of Big Beaver that was located in the same valley a half mile north of our farm. I remember riding out to the top of the valley on my bike after the storm only to see the whole valley covered in water. It was an amazing sight for a 9 yo who had never seen a body of water bigger than a small pond before. Fortunately the town was situated slightly higher than the water reached.

D7E, 17 inches of rain would be very close to the average annual rainfall for my province.

deerefan · May 13, 2015

tallyho8 said:
Today is the 20th anniversary of the record 18" of rain we got in 6 hours in Jefferson LA.
During this record setting 2 day rainstorm some areas got as much as 28" in 40 hours.
Luckily, we lived on some of the highest ground in the area and had no flooding.
'A rain of biblical proportions': The May 8-10, 1995 flood | NOLA.com

Remember this well. I was a teen living in a suburb of New Orleans, Metairie. We had some water come in thru weep holes in the brick, but not bad. It was definitely a weird occurrence.

sixdogs · May 26, 2015

One inch of rainfall is more than 27,000 gallons of water per acre. It's hard to imagine 18" of rainfall.

TheGoose · May 26, 2015

Alvin, Tx, just north of me, received 40 inches of rain in one day. This was in 1979 during Tropical Storm Claudette.
Tropical Storm Claudette (1979) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

jerrybob · May 26, 2015

We went through this back in 2007. A rancher friend stood on his hill and watched over 100 of his herd drown.....we were without power for 5 days. The timber industry lost millions of trees. I spent 5 days doing nothing but clearing trees from local roads. Amazing storm.......

Great Coastal Gale of 2007 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia