We had a powerful storm at 6 pm on the 4th that lasted just around 1 hour. It caused massive damage in the town next to us 12 miles away. Locally we had torrential rain and hail. They got torrential rain
and torrential hail and flash flooding.
Read this (photos and video)
http://www.localnews8.com/Global/story.asp?S=10644620
Inkom
Strong Storms Cause Flash Flooding In Inkom
Posted: July 5, 2009 01:58 PM
By: Ty Brennan
After strong thunderstorms Saturday night, Bannock County has been declared a disaster area.
A severe storm ripped up fences, trampled fields and washed away portions of the road in Inkom.
Kyle Anderson: "I've never seen this in my life, this severe, this fast, this hard in my life."
A thunderstorm ripped through southeast Idaho Saturday afternoon, the small town of Inkom got the brunt of what Mother Nature was dishing out. The storm quickly turned yards into ponds and streets into raging rivers.
Patsy Thurman: "You couldn't see the road at all it was totally crazy."
Kyle Anderson: "We seen furniture, trees, wood, lawn chairs sheds floating down the creek."
For Kyle Anderson, who's lived in Inkom for ten years, he says his house was spared from the flood waters by just a matter of feet. Unfortunately some of his neighbors weren't so lucky with reports of water filling basements waist deep.
Kyle Anderson: "Within about 15 minutes after the hail quit we were flooded."
Agencies, including Idaho State Police, The Bannock County Sheriff's Office and the Inkom Fire Department all assisted in the clean-up, but for long time residents they're still reeling from a fourth of July they won't soon forget.
Kyle Anderson: "You see this kind of flash floods on the news all the time all over the world and you never think it's going to hit you and then it did hit us."
