2010-06-30 / Front Page
STORMS ROLL THROUGH COUNTY
Business owners in one block of North Limestone Street can't wait for repairs to a faulty storm drain. For at least two years now, a storm drain (top left photo) underneath the railroad tracks along Wall Street has been spewing water and debris downhill toward several businesses on North Limestone Street during heavy rain storms. It happened again on Tuesday afternoon when some fast moving thunderstorms resulted in yet another geyser of water that one businessman said reached more than five feet into the air at its peak. At Daniels' Den of Flowers (above), owner Hal Daniels and employees moved fast to prevent the wall of water from flooding the business, as occurred in April. Daniels used his own weight and a rubber mat to stop a storm drain at the rear of his business from overflowing. (Ledger photos / TIM GULLA) 
With many folks yearning for rain to ease temperatures hovering in the mid-90s in recent weeks, residents of a home in the 200 block of Sycamore Street watched helplessly as a pecan tree fell on their home when a severe thunderstorm barreled through Cherokee County on Tuesday afternoon. No one was hurt. (Ledger photo / JOE L. HUGHES II) 
