Saturday late afternoon, we got an invite to go swim and have supper with good friends of ours. As we got there, the sky started to look ominous. The kids barely got their toes wet when the rumbles started. Soon after, the sirens went off. And then the storm hit. Whooo-eee did it ever! Terrific wind, lightening, and just torrential rain that wouldn't let up. In all, that brought 6" in that deluge. Then later that night it rained some more and some more and some more. And in meeting yesterday morning, the sky got weird looking and then the skies opened up again and left another couple of inches. Needless to say, there are floods. At the bottom of the hill we live on is the Fox River. It came over the road for the first time in our near 14 years of living here. Last night, the kids literally swam on the grassy field we usually walk and play catch on. Lisi is really loving it. But there are snakes, and water-logged rodents, and lots of frantic birds. I'll post some pictures I took this morning. On one of them, a red-winged blackbird is frantically upset that Lisi is close to her babies. And note the sign. If you can't read it... it says, 'thin ice'. Yeah, really thin ice. So thin it is wet!
Wow, that's a lot of water! I don't think we had quite that much rain here. I drove in it last night & it wasn't good at all.....
ReplyDeleteSix inches? And I was crying because we got 3". And it is raining again!! It was really bad about 8 yest. morning, a tree went down and we were ready to head to the basement when it let up. Then that eve. we DID go to the basement. This is getting OLD!
ReplyDeleteThis has been happening to us for two weeks now... we got six inches the first time we flooded. Roads were closed again today from flooding, but it looks like we get a couple of days of sunshine before it starts raining again. Anyone else getting the feeling we should be building an ark?
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