a railroad bridge washed out over placid little Rice Creek overnight, dumping 17 cars and 2 locomotives of a 106-car BN train. this also tore up the track and bridge used by the Northstar passenger rail. and dumped diesel fuel into Rice Creek, headed for the Mississippi. engineer and brakeman/conductor injured, no further data in the prints.
I-35w was drowned out between I-694 and state 96, road closed. traffic from the south end to the roofer's local 96 building in Blaine for leafletting today was up to an hour late.
at Chez Swschrad, we have had 4.4 inches in the past 24 hours. 1.6 Friday, and the rest overnight. plenty of drowned side roads around Blaine. our neck of the woods, just standing water in the rain gardens. the basement remains dry :-D it all soaked into our sandy soil here.
it is presently sort of nice in the shade in the backyard, as long as you don't move and have a little breeze on you. soon as those conditions change, it's nasty. we could get more rain, and we have extreme heat index warnings in the forecast through Wednesday, with the mid to upper 90s as temps through all next week. Broadcast Weather blog says the heat index will be worse here than in Dubai.
one of our Pee Tarty representatives took his folder and went home from budget-writing bill talks yesterday when his so-called "reforms" were called out of bounds by the administration. we're not out of the woods yet on this state shutdown stuff. the Norquist Gang still thinks, to use the telling quote of the master, they can "cut the size of government until it is small enough to strangle in the bathtub."
That's how you tell a true patriot and humanitarian, sure enough.
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