Erie, PA Flooding on Tuesday, June 30 2009

A low pressure system moved in and stalled over our area where it dumped a ton of rain, too much for the sewers. Some roads are closed under several feet of water and at least one creek overflowed its banks. The area around Jefferson Elementary some flooding, which is highly unusual. There was flooding in some areas that had never flooded before. Flooding was heavy in some areas. The heavy rain set back the plans of Extreme Makeover Home Edition which was in Erie at the time.
This from a forecast for light rain.
I start near 38th and French and work my way down to 34th and go a bit along 35th.
The link in the annotations leads to more video.

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[Torn80cj]

This must have been a trainrain event. One storm after another. When I was in N.C. we got 10.5 inches in a trainrain event. 4 big thunderstorms one after another. Each one would grow and form in the previous spot where the first one formed. On radar it resembled smoke coming from a fire. Wouldn't be surprised if the radar loop showed somewhat the same thing for your area on this day you videoed this. Light rain if you compare it to the monsoons in India. Forecasting still tricky to this day.

[dragonridley]

Yes, that's pretty much what happened, the storms just lined up right over the city. The line was pretty narrow too. Are as just a few miles to the south of us, which usually get the worst rain, hardly got anything. We got about 7.5 inches I think. The system itself was parked over us for 5 days but this was the only really bad day.

[jennaax814]

this was on my birthddday :]

and i live in erie. btw

[dragonridley]

Must have been an interesting birthday then.

[frankfurtmaintal]

anybody near MINEO DRIVE??

[dragonridley]

This was along Old French

[eatyourmomscunt]

too bad it didnt sink that shithole of a town into the lake.

[mariofarecraft2]

I had to miss football practice for this at Gus Anderson field because of this. The fields (or so I heard) was underneath six inches of rain water.

[jennaax814]

@dragonridley yeah, what a birthday.

[TheBossMods]

I live in erie on 25 an parade and i went to jefferson and it wasnt so bad that u needed a raft

[JustFapped]

corner of E 38th and Old French?

[mclaxin9]

love erie hahaha.

[jjgravante]

On the corner of Old French and E. 38th!!!! at least at the beginning. Good ol' Erie.

[jennaax814]

it wasss!

we took a raft down my street :]