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Torrential thunderstorms, hail flood suburban streets with ice floats on first full summer weekend in Idaho

By Georgia Worrell Published June 28, 2026, 3:42 p.m. ET

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Parts of Idaho looked like the Arctic on the first full weekend of summer when torrential thunderstorms and hail flooded the streets with ice floats, according to dramatic social-media footage. 

In a wild scene Saturday outside the state’s capital of Boise, a resident was caught on Instagram footage paddling a bright green kayak through the ice-covered floodwaters rushing down a suburban road — while a rural county near Nevada was hammered with a staggering 553 lightning strikes. 

“It was small hail, but there was an awful lot of it,” said Josh Smith, the Boise-based National Weather Service’s lead meteorologist, to the Idaho Statesman

A street in a residential neighborhood in Idaho shown at night, covered in floodwaters with large chunks of hail floating on the surface 4
Torrential rain and hail created hoards of ice floats in the street. City of Nampa

Cars parked along local streets were nearly swallowed by surging water from the relentless rains – with some vehicles submerged up to their windows – while trash bins floated through the makeshift river, the surreal footage shows. 

The widespread storm damage across the Gem State’s Treasure Valley region – a heavily-populated area that encompasses parts of Ada and Canyon counties – was also fueled by winds topping 50 mph, the Statesman said.

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A resident in a bright green kayak paddles through ice-covered floodwaters on a suburban road outside of Boise, Idaho, according to video posted to Instagram on Saturday.  Instagram/@mikecollierwx

As for the hail, “Even some of our employees that were in northwest Meridian said they had several inches of small hail on the ground,” Smith said.

“That probably led to some of the flooding issues with some of those neighborhoods because all that melted off quickly, and the drains weren’t able to handle it – in addition to the inch-plus rain that we received,” Smith explained. 

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