Show I Heavy Rainfall Blankets This Area Over the past few days this vicinity has had one of the heaviest rainstorms recorded for this time of or the year The rain started Monday Monday Monday Mon Mon- day night and continued throughout through through- out Tuesday with 81 S1 of an inch of oC ofrain ofrain rain falling from midnight on June 1 up to date It is figured that an anInch aninch aninch inch fell counting the rain on Monday Monday Monday Mon Mon- day evening which was not meas meas- The storm was almost continuous ous for 21 24 hours and Tuesday afternoon afternoon afternoon after after- noon fell in literal sheets of water In Delta gutters were completely filled and large Huge puddles in the streets and men were busy keepIng keeping keep keep- ing the drains open to carry the water away Following the rain another frost came on Wednesday night freez freezing ing ice in many places Crops and gardens suffered a little from this frost but in most cases there was too much water to do great dam dam- age |