The possibility that rain would dampen evening plans seemed remote during the sunshine that gleamed Friday morning. But rain fell, and plenty of it.

The Shenango Valley felt the brunt of thunderstorms which delayed several Friday night football games and canceled one in Brookfield.

Accuweather meteorologist Paul Dornsif, Pittsburgh, said the county was hit with four hours' worth of intermittent rainstorms -- two in the afternoon and two in the evening.

The rain kept local crews out in the streets mopping up a wet mess. Sharon firefighters monitored flooding at Connelly Boulevard and Dock Street, Budd and Dock streets, and State Street and Euclid Avenue. At about 7:15 p.m. Shenango Valley Freeway was also closed from Stambaugh to Sharpsville avenues for more than an hour.

"It's just unexplainable," Sharon Mayor David O. Ryan said of the rain.

Having had some basement flooding of his own, Ryan said he felt "disgusted" with the lingering weather pattern.

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