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A heavy summer storm
swept through the area last Wednesday evening, June 21 2006, but the
local area escaped with only relatively light damage.
The main problem was
heavy rain -- the rain gauge at the Waste Water Treatment Plant had a
full six inches in it on Thursday morning. Rainfall varied greatly
around the area, from as little at 2 1/2 inches north of town to eight
inches southeast of town.
Two tornado touchdowns
were reported in the area, one near North Adams, the other northeast of
Rollin. No particular damage was reported.
City Manager Bruce Van
Wieren reported that very heavy rain overloaded gutters and the storm
sewer system on South Church Street, causing several basements to be
flooded. "This was with storm water, not sewage," he explained.
Fixing the drainage
problem in the area is one of the items to be addressed in the
rebuilding of South Church Street, slated to begin next year.
Since there was not a
great deal of wind involved, there were no reports of major limbs or
trees down around the city.
Although customers
elsewhere in the area had a power outage lasting up to a day, there were
no electrical problems in Hudson itself.
The very heavy rains
caused a culvert to wash out on Medina Road west of Medina, leaving a
gully a good fifteen feet deep, and capturing one vehicle. The back side
of one store building in Clayton collapsed during the storm
(Click on photo
for full view)
 HEAVY
STORMS last Wednesday evening caused some damage around the area. One of
the more spectacular was this culvert washout west of Medina. It
managed to capture one vehicle, which George's Towing fished out the
next morning. It was not the first time it happened;
**old-timers recalled that the same
culvert washed out in the same place around 70 years ago.
(Click on photo
for full view)
 THE
BACK OF this store building on Clayton's State Street, next to
the Clayton Fire Station, collapsed during last Wednesday's storm. The
building was only being used for storage. This was the only structural
damage reported in the area from the storm.
**
I am not saying Ed Potter is an old-timer,
I am just relating a poignant memory of a little boy as told to me!
NLJ
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"Now then,
about 70 years ago I was at this same spot when a similar occurrence
happened. The unfortunate person was Fred Crumrine, a substitute
mail carrier for ? Armstrong that day and headed for Medina. He
drove off end of road and dropped into the stream uninjured. When
the waters receded my brother Bob, the Huff boys, Milton and Don,
and probably LaMoyne Shadbolt and I walked the banks of the stream
that emptied into Bean Creek about half mile or less away and picked
up pieces of mail that had washed out of the vehicle."
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