Hutchinson estimates his house got close to seven inches of rain Saturday night into Sunday morning. While the storm was going, even with the sump pumps running, the water was still going up, he said. You could visually watch it rise.
Down the road, Barbara Kahian woke up Sunday morning to see the normally quiet creek next to her house transformed into a white water rapid. It is kind of scary since in the middle of the night it sounds like a freight train constantly going by your house, she said. We have never seen it like this. Torrential downpours in Worcester Saturday evening left multiple streets flooded out.