Descriptions & Equivalents
- 50,000 customers without power
- atmospheric rivers
- April showers
- cars submerged on the streets
- catastrophic downpours/flooding
- caused flooding in washes and intersections
- dam might fail
- danger of flash flooding
- deluge
- downed power lines
- drastically reduced viability
- dripping
- drizzle
- drummed against the picture window
- early morning rain
- evacuated from his flooded home
- excessive runoff
- fat drops falling
- flash-flood warning
- flooded street gutters
- gutters overflowed
- hard-driving rain
- heard it coming down all night
- heavy rains drenched the streets
- high winds and surf forecast
- historic flash floods
- inundated roadways
- lightning flashed and thunder roared
- massive sinkholes
- mighty storm
- millions of gallons of rain
- mud puddles everywhere
- needed an umbrella
- pelting rain battered the roof
- puddles everywhere
- pumping moisture straight down
- raining cats and dogs
- reached up to 1 inch per hour
- received some moisture
- reservoirs close to capacity
- ribbons of water
- river of rain
- sandbagging operations underwa
- sent mud and debris cascading into neighborhoods
- sheeted off the windows
- slick streets
- soil can't absorb all the moisture
- spattering rain
- squall line moved through the area
- storm pounded the coast
- toad-strangler
- torrential rain
- washed-out roads
- water-damaged basements
- we needed it
- wettest winter on record
- wide-spread landslides
- wind-whipped rain
