KSNT Comments On Rain

TOPEKA (KSNT) — All the rain from recent weeks has been a burden for many including all the flooding and road closures it’s caused.

But if you can remember it wasn’t like this a year ago. In fact we barely got a drop. Now there is too much of it.

“I just think this is a part of nature,” said Patricia Bixby, Rossville resident.

And shower don’t seem to be letting up anytime soon.

A year ago Kansas was in an extreme drought, and now it seems like we can’t get rid of the high wind and rain Mother Nature has brought us.

“If anything we have been in a drought for the last couple of years and that certainly has had some determinable affects across the entire state of Kansas,” said Audra Hennacke from the Topeka National Weather Service. “But with the increase of moisture that we’ve had over the last couple of months, definitely this spring.”

The Topeka National Weather Service say the rain is coming from Nebraska.

But sometimes it’s too much of a good thing. With round after round of showers and storms, some towns like Rossville just can’t catch a break.

Last week this town was hit with storms and flooding. On Thursday Mother Nature struck again. Residents now let to picking up the pieces.

“We had to end up taking the second tree down because the wind split the base of it,” said Bixby.

Bixby was lucky that her home did not flood with the intense down pour. But her neighbors can’t say the same.

“Water has to go somewhere and with the rainfall rates the ground, and not soak in the moisture quick enough, and that’s where some of the rain turns into runoff leading into flash flooding on the streets,” said Hennacke.

Far Northeast and East Central Kansas aren’t in the clear just yet.

For video,  go to:  http://ksnt.com/2015/06/13/after-seasons-of-extreme-drought-rain-continues-to-pour-in/