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Weird weather: Boise residents posted the strangest sights they saw during freak storm

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Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman

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Downtown Boise experienced flooding on Tuesday. | Sarah Miller, Idaho Statesman
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BOISE (Idaho Statesman) — There was rain, hail, flooding, lightning and even a rainbow after a flash thunderstorm formed above Boise on Tuesday evening.

The sky dropped up to 1.5 inches of rain in less than 90 minutes in parts of downtown. As the weather turned from weird to weirder, Boise residents took to social media to show what they saw.

Lejo Flores, a hydrology professor at Boise State University, tweeted a photo of an overflowing North End canal that gave him “pressure flow and hydraulic structure memories.”

Stef Henry, a National Weather Service meteorologist, said the raindrops were so big they looked like snowflakes.

Lara Disney called a man she saw cleaning out the drains a “hero,” which got a “THANK YOU!” in response from the Ada County Highway District’s Twitter account.

Statesman reporter Ian Stevenson was covering a Boise City Council meeting when it was halted because the rain and hail were too loud. Water soon started seeping into City Hall.

Boise State Public Radio reporter Murphy Woodhouse captured some people enjoying the flood by taking floating devices out to the giant puddle in front of the Boise Co-op Market.

Cammie Thomas Patch posted a photo of a storm burst and said her “wind gauge quit at 50 mph.”

One Boise resident thought the weather felt more like Louisiana than Idaho.

Another person took a video of the eerie sight of a rainbow and lightning sharing the sky.

Idaho Statesman reporter Shaun Goodwin contributed to this report.

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