Sound and Fury

It rained all day yesterday in Jeffersonville, 5.25 inches according to Weather Underground. Sometime around 5pm, my cell phone started beeping. It was a weather alert for my area that included flash flooding, tornado watch and high winds. The town fire alarm also sounded. Yikes! The brook in our back yard, which had been merely a trickle lately, was a raging river of mud, the highest I've ever seen it. Allegedly, the brook has never flooded. At its crest yesterday, it was approximately two feet below our property level. Our lights flickered several times, but except for minor moisture in our basement, we escaped unscathed.