This is what two inches of rain in an hour looks like on my weather station (click for a clearer view):

And this is what a massive leak in my ceiling looks like:

Apparently there was so much flooding that they closed the bridge between the lab and town, the road that acts as a bypass for the bridge (West Rd.) and also 502, the main hill going up into town from the East. This effectively cut off the entire town for a little while this afternoon, due to flooding.

My lightning detector is still not installed in the rooftop weather station; it is sitting on my desk in the arcade room. It is not grounded to anything and thus has very poor reception. However, the lightning was so intense and close today that it picked up a lot of strikes. During one particularly intense lightning datapoint, the rain gauge read an average rate of ~8500 mm/hr (meaning about 5.6 inches of rain had fallen during that minute). This was obviously an error, likely caused by a nearby lightning strike corrupting the data coming down the wire from my rain gauge. Luckily, the gear all seems to still be working.