From JB Elliott: Trussville 2:35 PM Rain 2.04 inches most within 40 minutes. Still moderate to occasionally heavy rain. Temperature plunged to 72. Back yard flooded.
From me…drive around trussville reveals considerable water standing on roads…road behind first commercial bank completely covered, but no water in buildings, still raining moderately…big lightning and booming thunder to the south…
Saw a Norfolk Southern freight train go through downtown Trussville with a very large pine tree limb stuck in the grill of the lead engine…must have been a branch down on the tracks somewhere between Norris Yards and Trussville…or the Engineer is getting into the Christmas spirit a little early this year.
Doug Bennett relays this report: Overlook Place in Trussville, lightning strike on house…