Yesterday I replaced my long-mowed-over rain gauge and stuck it in the ground. This afternoon when I got home from car fixing, fabric shopping and visiting with Mom, there was 1.75″ of rain in the gauge.
I just had to unplug my iMac because there was a lot of rolling type thunder with an increasing number of flashes. I went upstairs and started ironing the new fabric.
Just now I went out and checked the gauge again and there was a solid half inch more in there. It came down in buckets!