Thanks all. Looks like we dodged it. Not over yet, but the bright red line of the front on radar is past.
It was weird though. no rain then about 20 seconds of what sounded like someone dropped a truckload of marbles on the roof, silence for a minute, then another truckload, and then that was it. Very strange. Like 40 seconds of rain total. Then it stopped for 20 minutes. Now it's starting to rain normally, and the radar is showing what looks like a normal storm patch < 1 inch/hr after the front.
Well, not much of a news story, but quite glad of it! Alarming when the warning radio turns itself on and starts blaring out a warning about possible tornadoes. And no, we don't normally get tornadoes here either! I think of that as happening in the plains and gulf states.
Well after Hurricane Irene hit here a couple years ago, I guess anything is possible.
Thanks for the well wishes. They worked!