Residents of the Scatchet Head community were still cleaning up Monday after weekend cloudbursts dumped more than 2 inches of rain in some areas of Whidbey Island.

More than 5 inches of rain was recorded from Friday night to Sunday morning in the foothills of the Cascade and Olympic mountains, the National Weather Service in Seattle reported.

“It was a pretty good-sized front for this time of year,” meteorologist Art Gaebel said.

From north to south, Whidbey Island got a drenching.

A total of 2.05 inches of rainfall was reported last week at Crockett Lake and near Coupeville, south of Snakelum Point. Fort Casey logged

1.88 inches of rain, and the weather desk at Naval Air Station Whidbey recorded 1.6 inches, according to Nancy Zaretzke of the WSU-Island County Extension.

Trees and branches fell across South End roadways during the weekend, and several culverts became clogged with sediment and leaves. County road crews were busy Monday clearing drainage systems of debris.

Hardest hit besides Scatchet Head were the Brighton and Columbia beach areas and the drainage system under Humphrey Road leading down the hill into Glendale, said Lance Landquist, supervisor at the county’s road shop in Bayview.

Residents of Clinton Beach Place north of the ferry terminal reported an overflowing culvert. One caller said 6 inches of water was in his yard.

Some Glendale residents feared that sediment from last spring’s flash flood of Glendale Creek caused by a burst beaver dam and a failing culvert under Glendale Road would clog culverts in the tiny beach community south of Clinton and pose a flood danger in future downpours.

Glendale resident Lorinda Kay said sediment roughly 6 feet deep settled in culverts near her home during the weekend storm.

“I’m concerned that’s going to be an issue the next time it rains,” she said.

Randy Brackett, assistant county engineer, said Tuesday that “we’ll continue to make improvements down there.”

Landquist said a three-person crew worked during the weekend to clear debris, and crews were out again on Monday clearing drains and culverts. He said county officials would inspect sediment levels in the Glendale area and clear the culverts if necessary.

“It was a hard rain,” he said. “Everybody was kind of spooked because of last spring, but everything appears to be fine.”

Not so at the private beach community of Scatchet Head.

Residents put up small sandbag barricades on Driftwood Drive on Saturday after an overnight gully washer made Sweetwater Creek overflow its banks and threaten several homes along the shore.

The floodwaters were more than a foot deep in Totem Park, and the water was nearly a foot deep in yards near the tennis courts near the Scatchet Head community center. Several mudslides along Sweetwater Creek pushed mud, wood and other debris through the neighborhood, and a huge muddy plume from the creek stretched out several hundred yards into Cultus Bay.

Residents at the scene said it looked as though the high water had gone inside several homes.

A small group of residents spent Saturday morning trying to clear storm drains along Driftwood Drive. Personnel from Island County Fire District 3 were also at the scene.

“You couldn’t see the road at all when I got here,” said Rosemarie Lloyd, a Scatchet Head resident.

Harry Scott, the president of the homeowners association for the Scatchet Head community, said Monday that the stormwater runoff was the worst he has seen in the area since the 1960s.

Scott, who has a weather station at his home, said his rain gauge went up 5 inches in a span of 24 hours during the weekend.

The water was too much for the stormwater lines along Driftwood Drive to handle, even though the neighborhood has tried to improve drainage in the area in recent years.

Scott said the community installed an 18-inch line near the 24-inch pipe that handles runoff near Driftwood Drive.

Even so, problems persist.

“With continued development, it just overwhelms what’s down there,” Scott said.

Scott spent about five hours Monday cleaning out the stormwater conveyance system next to his home on Driftwood Drive. It has been upgraded twice to handle increased flows, and Scott said it will need to be expanded again to handle the amount of water that flows downslope south from Swede Hill. It will be the third upgrade in 25 years.

“When I moved in, what was coming off the hill, you barely noticed,” he said.

Although South End roadways were covered with water Friday night and Saturday, no major traffic disruptions were reported,

Fire District 3 Assistant Chief Paul Busch said Monday.

“We had a lot of calls, but nothing serious,” Busch said. However, a vehicle ran into a power pole about 2 p.m. Saturday and knocked out power to about 50 homes in the Bush Point Road area of Freeland, he said.

Some flooding was also reported at Freeland Park during the weekend.

Drenching rain also dampened homecoming activities at Friday night’s South Whidbey-Granite Falls football game at aptly named Waterman Field in Langley.

The forecast is for little rain for the remainder of the week, with the possibility of another storm front moving in next week, Gaebel of the weather service said.

“This is nothing unusual for this time of year,” Gaebel said. “If you’re looking for more warm summer days, they’re history.”