From the National Weather Service (whose shift key is perpetually locked):
LATEST DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED MODERATE RAIN.HEAVY AT TIMES WAS FALLING ACROSS THE REGION. AN INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER THE LAST 6 HRS & ANOTHER ONE HALF TO THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH IS POSSIBLE THROUGH LATE MORNING. RAINFALL AT THESE RATES IN COMBINATION WITH LEAF CLOGGED DRAINAGE & ALREADY SATURATED GROUNDS WILL CAUSE CONSIDERABLE PONDING ON AREAS ROADWAYS.
Ponding – they mean like the photo you printed over the weekend of Godfrey Road.
https://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=ponding&x=14&y=17
Main Entry: 2pond
Function: verb
transitive senses : to block (as a stream) to create a pond
intransitive senses : to collect in or form a pond
Hey, it only took me 1:40 to get to work today, 37 miles South of Bloomfield. Not good.
This reminds me of a really old joke based on the slogan “She’s lovely, she uses Ponds…”
Yeah, why is the NWS always shouting at us?
Maybe it needs a hearing aid but doesn’t want to admit it.