It was Rain-sanity in Sacramento on Thursday! 2.39 inches of rain fell at Sacramento Executive Airport breaking the record set in 1995 of 2 inches.
City crews work furiously to unclog a drain on 10th and College in Land Park.
According to the City Of Sacramento there were 300 calls for assistance. City workers furiously cleared 533 drain inlets, 65 culverts, and 15 plugged mains. I even managed to clear a couple of old antiquated drains on my street in Hollywood Park where the street sometimes floods.
City of trees, city of leaves, city of clogged drains.
Most folks were prepared for the deluge of wind and rain due to the oversaturation of local news reports. Social media was a big part of the hype, too. #hellastorm #norcalstorm and other hash tags were used on Facebook and Twitter to report on all the chaos.
A Toyota pickup drives through the flood on Freeport and makes a splash.
The City of Sacramento even ran out of sandbags. I saw a guy in a Toyota pick-up with a whole cab filled with sand bags. Noah would have been impressed.
The good news is there wasn’t a lot of damage to the Sacramento area. Minor flooding of streets and a few trees blew over. Freeport Blvd in front of William Land Park was a small lake for awhile but eventually the drains did their job. Some folks stayed home from work to avoid the street flooding , while others jogged right through the big storm.
A soaking wet jogger runs through the rainstorm in Land Park.
The rainstorm also put a good dent in the drought. If any Sacramento resident or business have their sprinklers on this weekend, they should immediately be whipped, flogged and waterboarded.
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