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Originally Posted by Lee Stewart
The town of Unionville in Maryland got a record-breaking drenching on 4 July 1956 when 1.23 inches (3.12cm) of rain fell in just one minute. According to the World Meteorological Organization, it is the greatest rainfall to ever fall in one minute and be reliably recorded to date.
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We moved to a new location in Sept 2019. The next spring was rainy and I was trying to get a driveway put in to the new building I'd had put up in the backyard. We didn't have a rain gauge at the new place, so I went to Fleet Farm and got a BIG one. When I got home my wife said " I hope I never see that full"....... It was predicted to rain overnight. We were woken a few times by pounding rain and in the morning there was 5.5" in the gauge. By the time it stopped later that day, it topped out at 6". Communities 7-8 miles East of us had 14-16" overnight and roads and bridges on township and county roads that had stood for 50 years were wiped out in flash floods.
Moral of the story, never make a comment about something that Mother Nature just might feel like making come true.
