What make this surprising to me is that this isn't a river flooding like happens in some areas, or weeks and weeks of sold rain slowly soaking and flooding everything as happened in England last year. This was one evenings massive rain fall. We stood at our front door watching it for a while and I have honestly never, ever, seen rain falling as hard as it did in my life.
Kenny_McCormic wrote: The problem is amplified by Detroit being settled by the French who have some sick obsession with colonizing swamps. The whole area has terrible drainage issues.
Blame the French, I can always get on board with blaming the French 
