FLOOD AND SHAKE

By Linda Mowery-Denning
 
The old saying, “If you don’t like the weather in Kansas, just wait a few minutes and it will change,” would have been an appropriate headline to summarize this past week’s smorgasbord of extremes. Ellsworth finished August with more than 5 inches of rain in a couple of hours, enough to overwhelm the city’s drainage inlet at Eighth Street and Douglas Avenue and temporarily flood Douglas from Kansas Highway 140 to downtown.
 
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