Streets flooded, manhole covers off as afternoon storm pounds Omaha area

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/news/metro/streets-flooded-manhole-covers-off-as-afternoon-storm-pounds-omaha/article_f3b924a2-3809-11e4-8705-0017a43b2370.html




OMAHA FIRE DEPARTMENT
Two vehicles were stuck in the water under Dodge Street near Westroads Mall when flash flooding struck the area on Tuesday afternoon. A mother and three children were rescued from the van by the fire department. No injuries were reported.

POSTED: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2014 5:13 AM | UPDATED: 5:09 PM, TUE SEP 9, 2014.
By Julie Anderson, Alia Conley and Jay Withrow / World-Herald staff writers

A heavy thunderstorm complicated travel in the Omaha area on Tuesday afternoon.

Manhole covers were washed off around the city and police were responding to storm damage and flooding in many areas.

Omaha's 911 emergency call system was down with a technical problem for about a half hour between 4:30 and 5 p.m.

Streets were flooded near 84th and Cass Streets and 90th and Burt Streets. Saddle Creek Road was flooded under the Dodge Street bridge where two cars were seen stranded, and a manhole cover was reported off at the nearby Walgreens at 225 N. Saddle Creek Road.

FULL story at link.

From twitter at the link:

[Maw Kettle]

1. I hope my kids are OK!

Two of my boys are building the new bridge over the Missouri near Bellevue and my future daughter-in-law goes to beauty school in Omaha! I'm going to call and check on them!

[Omaha Steve]

3. We live just a couple miles away from that bridge

Our daughter is only 1/4 mile away. A major road near her is getting upgraded for the expected higher traffic.

Tell them all I said hi.

OS

[Hoppy]

2. Same stuff yesterday in Phoenix. Maybe Fred Phelps is right..

it is godz punishment for encouraging buggery in our country.

[Omaha Steve]

4. Omaha's Eppley Airfield sets record with 3.43 inches of rain (a second storm came through)

http://www.omaha.com/news/metro/once-again-torrential-rains-trigger-street-flooding-water-rescues-in/article_f3b924a2-3809-11e4-8705-0017a43b2370.html

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Yet again this summer, torrential rains fell Tuesday on eastern Nebraska and western Iowa, creating havoc on some Omaha roads and setting at least one local rainfall record.

About 3 to 5 or more inches fell in the Omaha metro area when the two storm systems blew through. By midnight, street flooding had subsided and officials were keeping a watchful eye on local creeks.

The National Weather Service said a record for Sept. 9 of 3.43 inches of rain fell at Eppley Airfield, 3.45 inches in Elkhorn and more than 5 inches south of Blair, said Rick Chermok, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Valley.

The previous mark for Sept. 9 in Omaha was 1.24 inches set in 1912, the weather service said. Most of the metro area received anywhere from 3 and 3.5 inches to 1.5 and 2 inches in southern parts of the metro, the weather service said. Locations about three miles west of Fort Calhoun reported 5.5 inches overnight.

FULL story at link.

[malaise]

5. Stay safe