Flying tin

Bruce Crosby/McCook Daily Gazette

A tin chimney cap lies in a stubble field after apparently being torn loose from a home on north West Third Street in McCook. The object struck power lines and twisted them together to knock out power early Tuesday morning. The storm dropped .15 of an inch of rain on the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation office in McCook, .34 at Swanson Reservoir, .63 at Enders Lake and .24 at Hugh Butler Lake. Sunday night, Swanson Reservoir received .67 of an inch and Enders .56. In addition, hail up to 1.5 inches in diameter, at times covering the ground, was reported in Dundy and Hitchcock counties in Nebraska, and in Cheyenne, Rawlins, Decatur and Norton counties in Kansas on Sunday evening.