Put down the thesaurus, sir, and back away with your hands up. Last night's thunderstorms did more than just dump more rain, apparently:

Thunderstorms lambasted northern Missouri and sections of central Illinois producing 6- to 8-inch rain totals in a region still reeling from flooding and wet ground.

Unmentioned is the severe castigation delivered to southeast Iowa, and the blistering tongue-lashing given to Michigan.

Posted by David Fleck at 26 June 2008 06:38 AM