Weather report 6/22/10
Waukesha WI
We had a terrific storm last night. Potential tornado(s) damaged several homes in Eagle a few miles SW of here. Other damages are reported in Mukwonago and Vernon. No one was seriously hurt, it is said. Final assessment is yet to come.
We watched a movie while the heavy rain pelted the skylight above us and the lightning flashed coninuously through the plexiglass. At one point a distant siren sounded. We opted to stay put in our bunker on the top floor of the 1882 Putney, made of thick limestone.
Occasional trips to the front window revealed streets awash with several inches of water. The rain and lightning were captivating, but eventually we returned to our viewing room/bedroom in the rear. We speculated that flying glass would not reach us there unless it was mightily-driven, through some intervening walls of the kitchen and bathroom. Had the skylight blown off, the only light source in that room, we would have gotten very wet.
Today we walked the block down to the Fox River to see how high the river had run. It looked to have been a couple of feet over its banks, judging by the beaten grass on river's edge, pointing downstream.
The walking path at the river was submerged at one point during the storm's immediate aftermath.
Shown here, a woman surveys the debris-strewn Riverwalk. The river is still running quite high but the picturesque walkway is traversible.
