Record Long Rain List

Her names was Ida, so we can blame all of this extra work on that young lady. She brought so much rain to the state of Alabama that we are now ready to post a list of rain amounts that may be longer than we have ever done before. You may want to stop for a cup of coffee halfway through (or a Buffalo Rock). These numbers are the storm total. Most of this rain fell in about 36 hours. On a number of these, we also are adding the year-to-date amounts.

4.51 Roebuck in NE Birmingham
3.68 Anniston
3.93 Auburn
4.32 Birmingham Airport
4.55 Shelby County Airport
3.17 Montgomery/Dannelly Field
2.77 Inverness
2.49 Ashville
3.51 Coker, YTD (Year-To-Date) 73.57
1.71 Northport
3.50 Jemison
1.25 Bear Creek
3.56 Gardendale
1.44 Fayette
3.55 Inverness
5.00 Ingramtown (Hale County, east of Havana Junction)
2.88 Samantha
2.90 Weaver
4.75 Odenville
4.27 Greystone Farms
3.57 Four miles west of Holt
4.59 Opelika
4.41 Moundville (I went to elementary school there)
3.31 Chelsea, YTD 44.25
4.45 Wedowee
6.00 Two miles NNW of Phenix City
4.30 Clay/Deerfoot
5.11 Inverness
4.61 Jemison
4.35 Concord/Hueytown
4.82 Weaver
5.00 Homewood
3.96 Gardendale/Mt. Olive
5.54 Moody
4.58 Cottondale, YTD 69.20
3.55 Odenville
4.24 Sycamore
3.30 Remlap
4.40 Gadsden EMA (multiple roads underwater)
3.28 DeSoto State Park
4.30 Three miles north of Trussville
3.32 Muscadine
3.91 Broomtown
66.36 YTD Noccalulu Falls (Do not have the two-day total)
5.11 Inverness, YTD 66.52
5.50 Crestline Heights
3.50 Cedar Bluff
6.05 Demopolis
5.54 Moody
4.41 Clanton
1.69 Jasper
1.24 Millport
4.38 Simmons Mountain, Springville area
3.60 Clay/Pinson/Womack Road, YTD 64.22, last 12 months 73.90
5.00 Oxford, Two miles west of the airport
4.82 Coldwater (Reminds me of that old Western song, “Cool, Cool Water” by Sons of the Pioneers)
3.09 Rickwood Caverns
3.24 Walnut Grove in West Etowah County
3.50 Alabaster/Navajo Pines, YTD 56.22
4.77 Hoover near Spain Park
6.79 Grantley
2.60 Guntersville
5.36 Talladega
3.94 Vigo
5.08 Homewood
6.00 Shelby
3.80 Crestwood
4.78 Rocky Ridge/Hoover
4.02 Scrougeout, YTD 74.09, last 12 months, 89.42

Your eyes are now blurry, but let me add the note that we get more than one report from some communities.

ADDITIONAL REPORTS
* At one time, three blocks of downtown Anniston were under 2.5 feet of standing water.

* In Gadsden at one time, multiple streets were flooded in and around the area.

* Multiple trees down in Elmore County.

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