Lovely Ruth Sayger of Russellville, Arkansas, is a good sport upon hearing that the 2010 Outdoors, Inc., Canoe and Kayak Race has been canceled due to severe weather. That was one wild morning here in Memphis, as very heavy rain was followed by the tornado warning sirens that prompted the cancellation. Just making it to the start at the north end of Mud Island was an adventure: I had to detour around flash floods at the Watkins Street underpass and several other spots along North Parkway. Racers coming over the Hernando DeSoto Bridge from Arkansas were delayed by flooding at the Danny Thomas Boulevard exit on Interstate 40.
Yesterday morning reminded me of that day in 2010. Once again I encountered flooding on North Parkway on my way down to the river. In the harbor, the litter collection structure at the mouth of Bayou Gayoso had been severely damaged by the bayou's raging currents.
This morning's newspaper reports that nearly seven inches of rain fell between 6 PM Saturday and 6 PM yesterday. That's not a record, but it's close. I'm no expert on how three inches of rain compares to six inches of rain or anything like that, but I do know that we often have very heavy showers that amount to less than an inch. So yesterday we had a lot of rain.
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