{"id":950,"date":"2008-09-17T11:58:59","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T16:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/?p=950"},"modified":"2008-09-17T11:58:59","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T16:58:59","slug":"recent-heavy-rains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/17\/recent-heavy-rains\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Heavy Rains"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Before I left for China we got some pretty heavy rain in our area. There was a long stream of storms from as far south as the Gulf of Mexico winding up through the Chicago area and continuing past us through the midwest. Most of the rain was the\u00a0remnants\u00a0of recent\u00a0hurricanes\u00a0that hit the south.<\/p>\n

A few blocks from our house is a train station and parking lot. The lot is at a very low point in the neighborhood, so when there is a lot of rain (it has to be several hours straight) the lot can’t drain fast enough. If it keeps up long enough the lot starts to turn into a swimming pool. The last time this happened was about 8 years ago and I’ve been watching for it to happen again so I could take photos (last time I was having too much fun driving my jeep through it to think about taking photos).<\/p>\n

The last time it happened it was on a week day so the lot was full of cars. This time there were only a few unlucky people since it was a Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\t\t