Another deluge

Yes, I know, I've complain all winter about meteorologists who oversell storms, but this time they underplayed it. Instead of the "scattered thunderstorms" that weather.com predicted, on Tuesday morning (Aug. 13) we got yet another in a series of heavy summer rainstorms that caused raging streams, flooded roads and snarled traffic. (And school would've been cancelled if the school year were in session.)
On Tuesday morning Route 82 was closed between Doe Run Village and Blow Horn when the Doe Run overflowed its banks, and Route 841 was flooded out in Springdell. That afternoon the Brandywine Creek was over its banks at Pocopson and at Route 1. Traffic was so backed up that it took a friend more than three hours to get to her Unionville home from Painter's Crossroads! She eventually made it home by backtracking to West Chester and taking Route 162 west.
You were probably as startled as I was by those loud Flash Flood alert tones that sounded on your phone (a friend was telling me her phone lights up, too). I realized for the first time that the alert is sent to all the phones in the area based on your GPS location, not your phone number. My sister was in town visiting from the Midwest, and even her phone sounded.