We had some major rain on the east side. Some of the streets had flooding issues. Me... I just drove them for fun and got to splash slow moving cars and people...}:)
Aug 29, 2008 04:18 PM#32
Dana said something about whole roofs off and thrown onto the light rail. 85mph winds and 5 all their 5th floor windows.
Aug 29, 2008 06:24 PM#33
We just got our power back on. Part of our roof is gone and a 200 foot pine tree split down the middle. There was 100 mile an hour winds in our area and there are about 200 trees down in our little area alone. Our Basketball hoop fell and hit my Jeep. The Denny's sign fell over at 16st and Camelback and landed on a Jeep Chrk. Its was crazy last night. THey said it was as close to a Hurrcain we will ever see.
Aug 29, 2008 07:06 PM#34
You win. That's crazy
Aug 29, 2008 07:09 PM#35
Well... it sure was pretty from the redneck viewing gallery in my front yard. Lawn chair. Beer. Smokes... I enjoyed the floor show.
Sorry to hear about your Jeep getting wacked, Nate.
Aug 29, 2008 07:10 PM#36
Looks like Dana and Nate were right in their accounts and right in the center of it. I can understand how a Hyundai Santa Fe got misinterpreted into a Cherokee.
Fallen power lines and what appeared to be a shredded roof blocked parts of the intersection of 7th Street and Thomas Road. Police have closed 7th Street southbound at Thomas, and eastbound traffic on Thomas was limited to just one lane. A fallen tree hit a water line at the Valero gas station on the southeast corner of the intersection, spraying water out into the road and parking lot.
A large Denny's sign fell onto two parked vehicles at a Denny's restaurant on the southeast corner of Camelback Road and 16th Street. The sign fell during the storm's peak last night, shattering the front windshield and hood of a black Infinity and blowing out the rear window of a black Hyundai Santa Fe.
Arcadia doors and windows were damaged at the Regency House condominiums in central Phoenix near McDowell Road and Central Avenue. High winds deposited part of the roof into Central Avenue near the light rail station. Wind also blew glass out of about 20 windows, leaving glass shards scattered across the pavement. One construction worker compared the scene to a war zone.
The ASU practice stadium popped too
Selected rainfall totals according to the Maricopa Flood Control District:
Mesa – 0.98 inches
Tempe – 1.46 inches
Phoenix – 1.69 inches
Scottsdale – 1.22 inches
Aug 29, 2008 07:36 PM#37
skatchkins wrote: I can understand how a Hyundai Santa Fe got misinterpreted into a Cherokee.
Same way the Kuiper kids think you drive a minivan? :)=)