West Roxbury, South Brookline swept away by flooding, sinkholes

I think it may have been the hardest rain I've seen outside the tropics. Looking out my windows in Rozzie, it was like someone kept upending buckets, an almost solid column of water. I'm not surprised to see it did some damage here and there.

that people actually admit to being from Jersey.

Route 70 is being rerouted currently due to a "roadway collapse" at Cypress/Boylston in Brookline currently too.

I was in Waltham (Skellig on Moody) when it started around 1:15. Death sky followed by inverted forests of rain and much lightning. The bar lights went on and off repeatedly (I never dropped my pint though.) My chum and I left around 2. We got soaked going the 60 or so yards to the parking garage, but the lightning had stopped.

Having seen 128 jammed southbound for miles on the way there, I cleverly meandered through Waltham and West Newton and Newton. It wasn't so clever. Every few blocks had a downed tree or at least limbs in the road. On many streets, the storm drains didn't drain and there was a scary depth for us sedan drivers.

Then I got to the WR Parkway for the rubble and rocks. The 35 minute drive took an hour.

When I got home, I found all of my veggie and herb plants on the north side of the house had been blown sideways and flat, big and little ones. Those on the south side of the house just looked perky after the rain. Plus of course, all the plastic yard and desk furniture was hither and yon.

For my part of JP, the wind definitely came from the north -- hard.