Friday night rain soaks wide area

It had been a long time since this area had a wide-spread soaker but thankful we can report we had one Friday evening.

The National Weather Service Office invited area residents to submit rainfall reports on Saturday and the following reports were among those submitted. The reports come from gauges that may or may not meet weather service standards.

Paul Voboril, two mles west of Esbon, 1.80; Vanessa Walters, Red Cloud, 1.10; Mike Jordan, southwest of Beloit, 1.54; Chris Stupka, Concordia, 1.20; Patrick Hinricks, Roseland, 1.00; Scott Pierson, Osborne, 1.46; Troy Moser, Cawker City, 1.46 and G...