{"id":72738,"date":"2015-05-18T09:46:09","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T14:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=72738"},"modified":"2015-05-18T19:06:45","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T00:06:45","slug":"heavy-rains-drench-region-sat-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=72738","title":{"rendered":"Heavy rains drench region Sat &#038; Sun &#8211; photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown (CSi) Heavy rains drenched the Jamestown area this\u00a0 past weekend, starting with training thunderstorms Saturday evening, and continuing on Sunday with periods of heavy rain, followed on Sunday evening and overnight with snow, and sleet. \u00a0\u00a0Through Saturday &amp; Sunday, the\u00a0<a title=\"KJMS Airport\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nws.noaa.gov\/data\/obhistory\/KJMS.html\" target=\"_blank\">Weather Station at Jamestown Airport<\/a>\u00a0had recorded\u00a0<strong>5.29 inches<\/strong>\u00a0of rain this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Monday morning storm total updates&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Airport Saturday rain all day =\u00a0<strong>2.69\u2033<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Airport\u00a0 rain\u00a0\u00a0Sunday thru\u00a07am Monday\u00a0=\u00a0<strong>2.60\u2033 \u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Airport grand total for the weekend plus Monday am-<strong>5.29\u2033<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[easyrotator]erc_87_1431902812[\/easyrotator]<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday\u00a0a pump was running along 13th St NE Jamestown, to remove standing water from a parking lot. \u00a0 Water was standing in fields near the airport. \u00a0 In SE Jamestown, \u00a0a tree came down blocking most of 9th Av SE in the 1500 block. \u00a0 The \u201cspillway\u201d on the James River near the oxbow, which had no water passing into the bypass channel just a few days ago, was running almost level.<\/p>\n<p>Heavy rain from the thunderstorms Saturday evening resulted in the temporary closure of the viaduct<\/p>\n<p>LEC dispatchers also received calls Saturday evening about sewage backing up into some homes in southeast Jamestown.<\/p>\n<p>Surface damage was noted at the base of the stadium hill (3rd Street Northeast, near the University of Jamestown football field). The asphalt buckled at the base of the hill, which may have been caused by a storm sewer failure there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reports of water over the road on Sunday on \u00a0N.D. Highway 9 in Courtenay and on Old Highway 10 between Jamestown and Spiritwood. Road crews\u00a0were \u00a0been dispatched to both locations Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>At 7-a.m. Monday the James River gauge in Jamestown show the river level had dropped to about 5 and a half feet, compared to just over 7 feet at 7-p.m., on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Before the heavy weekend rain the river level in Jamestown was maintaining three feet.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday morning at 7am. the Sheyenne River at Valley City was at 7.56 feet, a rise of about a foot from Sunday at 7-a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Other area rain totals from the storm included\u2026<\/p>\n<p>4.45 inches at Carrington<\/p>\n<p>Thunderstorms between 7 and 9 p.m. Saturday resulted in rainfall accumulations of more than 1 inch per hour contributing to the nearly 5.4 inches Jamestown recorded officially as of 9 p.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>A record for daily maximum rainfall was broken on Sunday. \u00a0As of 9 p.m. Sunday, 2.56 inches of rain had fallen in Jamestown, which breaks the old record in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown (CSi) Heavy rains drenched the Jamestown area this\u00a0 past weekend, starting with training thunderstorms Saturday evening, and continuing on Sunday with periods of heavy rain, followed on Sunday evening and overnight with snow, and sleet. \u00a0\u00a0Through Saturday &amp; Sunday, the\u00a0Weather Station at Jamestown Airport\u00a0had recorded\u00a05.29 inches\u00a0of rain this weekend. 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