The Missus reports from her office aerie above the Downtown Crossing Borders on some unusual weather conditions during this afternoon's storm:

... Huge sheets of foamy drywall material, six feet long and two feet wide, came floating and then spiraling down on Washington Street in front of us.

At first we worried that these were wooden boards floating in the sky. Turns out they were just foam though. So no one was hurt. But yikes! ...

5:15 p.m.: Harvard street off of Powderhouse Square is pretty much impassable right now unless you have a really tall pickup truck.

You know it's bad when firetrucks go screaming past you to rescue drivers whose cars got stuck in some floodwaters and the regional cable news network feels compelled to warn us not to drive into flash floods.

Michael Fontaine took the above photo of today's storm moving in over Boston.

Lyss photographed the storm coming in over Swampscott.

Back in June:
Amazing photo of storm moving in over Cambridge.

Every time there's a heavy rain, this woman, who lives on the southbound side of the VFW Parkway, just past the West Roxbury Parkway, dons her boots and raincoat and goes out with a rake to try to keep the storm drain and "dry" catchbasin outsider her house clear, to minimize the damage from flooding. She's been doing that a lot lately.

Paul Keleher spots a sensible driver on 128 - pulling a boat.

Shane Curcuru reports:

... [T]he Mem. underpasses to the Longfellow are glub, glub, glub. ...

Adam Pieniazek posts photos and videos of a flash flood on his street caused by yesterday's rain.

All the rain makes for good mushroom conditions, as Karen Larsen discovered on a walk along the river in Watertown.

Brad Searles reports on, posts photos of an incident on Franklin Street around 10 p.m. last night:

A rotted tree next to our place decides to fall... directly on to an idling taxicab. He'd been sitting there for all of two minutes, and WHAM. Fortunately he wasn't hurt, but it was a close call.