Yuletide rains leave state awash
Homes, I-30 flooded as total for year tops 1882 LR record
Friday, December 25, 2009
Cars drive through the bumper-deep standing water on North Hills Blvd in the Dark Hollow area after overnight rains flooded the area in North Little Rock, December 24, 2009.
Photo by Jeff Mitchell
Relentless, record-setting rain flooded homes and countless roads in Arkansas and shut down part of Interstate 30 on Christmas Eve, stranding holiday travelers.
“I just told my mom that I wasn’t going to make it for Christmas. She started crying,” said motorist Misty Luce of Sugar Land, Texas, who had been stuck on the interstate near Alexander for more than five hours. “We’ve gone one mile.”
With about 8 inches of rain falling in Little Rock over a 48-hour period, the city shattered an 1882 record for its wettestyear.
As of 4 p.m. Thursday, rainfall for 2009 in Little Rock totaled 81.57 inches. The 127-year-old record was 75.54 inches.
“We crushed it,” National Weather Service ...
Flooding on Highway 67/167 between Jacksonville and Cabot, Thursday.
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