08/16/2026
Well, darlings... Remember when we said this week's rainfall was historic?
Yeah. Apparently Mama Nature heard us and said, "Hold my beer." Because preliminary numbers out of eastern Indiana are absolutely bonkers.
NEW CASTLE: 11.24" of rain in roughly 48 hours
MUNCIE: 8.10"
For a little perspective on just how ridiculous those numbers are, the rainfall threshold shown for a 1-in-1,000-year event is approximately 8.38" in New Castle and 8.09" in Muncie.
New Castle didn't just cross that threshold, it pretty much grabbed it by the hand, dragged it behind the woodshed, and beat it with a garden hose.
And before somebody inevitably wanders into the comments saying, "Well, I don't remember it raining like this 1,000 years ago..."
Bless your heart.
A "1-in-1,000-year" rainfall does NOT mean this only happens once every thousand years. It's a statistical way of describing an event with roughly a 0.1% chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year based on available precipitation-frequency data.
You can technically have two "1,000-year" events relatively close together because statistics are fun like that.
ison for every single town.
Now for our "favorite" part: IT'S STILL RAINING!
Yep.
After parts of Indiana received rainfall amounts that would already qualify as extraordinary to historic, another round of rain is currently adding insult to injury across portions of the state.
At this point the ground isn't just saturated, it's completely resigned because the soil has reached its emotional limit, drainage ditches are questioning their career choices, the creeks have unionized, and, somewhere, a mosquito is looking at all this newly available waterfront property and putting a down payment on a condo.
So we're going to beat this particular dead horse until it files a restraining order:
DO. NOT. DRIVE. THROUGH. FLOOD WATER.
We don't care if you drive that road every day or if the water "doesn't look very deep." Nor do we care if you've got four-wheel drive, all-wheel drive, six-wheel drive, or the confidence of one of those dumpster diving "Influencers" hiding out behind Target the night before trash day.
TURN AROUND. DON'T DROWN.
The bottom line is that Indiana has taken one heck of an atmospheric beating this week, and unfortunately Mama Nature is apparently still standing over us asking if we've had enough.
Yes, ma'am, WE HAVE.
Please collect your derecho, your biblical rain machine, your flash flooding, your rowdy spinny bois, and the rest of your raggedy belongings and kindly see yourself out.
We're ready for fall and have never wanted boring weather so badly in our lives.
As always, darlings...
Stay Aware. Stay Safe. And Don't Get Twisted.
