Crazy weather...

“Too bad I don't white water kayak”

“Never too late to start :)”

“Too bad it isn't snow.”

“That didn't all melt until about June here.”

“Yeah. Summer is the pits, let's pray for snow.

Yeeeeeeeyyyy! Zac has a trip posted for Lake Placid.”

“I need a raft.

So far my block hasn't been compleatly flooded but if this keeps up, it won't be long. So far I can get out.

had to empty my rain gage as it was over flowering...again (it holds 6 inches of rain) I emptied it yesterday morning so we've had 6 inches since then, and its still raining. We have almost 5 inches a few days ago. 4 inches a few days before that. Drove past the marsh next to my neighbors....its way flooded, soon it will be to the road out, my only road out. I bet the river is mega high too...I didn't drive down that far. maybe it will be covering the road and I won't be able to get to work :)”

“Ike's coming for ya...”

“We are now an island. I've tired every way possible to get out of here, so that I c an get to work in hammond. Nope Nope Nope. Burn's ditch has taken over the road, the bridge and all the fields. I can't get to 6, I can't get to 80/94, I can't get to I-65. I can't get to 20 and I can't get to the toll. Its looking iffy to even leave the neighborhood now. They had emergency vehicles in here taking a look, to see if they needed to evacuate people. Towards swansom road they have been evacuating. I tried to get to home depot for supples but they were letting people out of that area and not in. So we are stuck.”

“oh my neighbor just called to tell me the evacuated the front of the neighborhood because its lower. Yikes.”

“All of NW Indiana is under water this evening. We have received more than 25 inches on rain in the past 3 days. Major highways are under water. Our town has has more than 75% of the homes flooded and the little calumet river broke thru in Munster flooding half the town.”

“WK, I was worried about you. They said that highland had been evacuated due to a levy break.

The lake george dam broke earlier and they had to rescue folks by boat from a trailor park near it.

My neighbors cars have water to their dashboards. I was lucky as my car is on a bit of higher ground. I hope I can get out tomorrow...if the rain stops for good maybe some of the roads will be passable by then.
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“Region rainfall exceeds Houston


September 15, 2008Recommend (2)

By Piet Levy Post-Tribune staff writer

While all eyes were on Houston this weekend, lying directly in the path of Hurricane Ike, it was Northwest Indiana that received the most rain fall.
As of press time, the highest inch count from the weekend storms was in Lakes of The Four Seasons -- a whopping 10.48 inches as of 1 p.m. Sunday.

Houston, on the other hand, had a weekend high of just 1.63 inches, recorded Saturday after Ike had rolled in.

"We definitely had more than Houston," said Charles Mott, meteorologist for the National Weather Service branch based in Romeoville, Ill. "How does that make you feel?"

For many, they felt outrage. Merrillville resident Rosalind Thurston, of the Innsbrook subdivision, said her parlor room sounded "like Niagra Falls," with water flowing into the home from the front and the back, due to the home's unique placement at a "T" intersection.

But while Lakes of the Four Seasons had the highest inch count, a spokesperson at the gated community's security office said there was no flood damage or evacuations Sunday.

In Porter County, Valparaiso was recorded as having the highest rain fall inch count Sunday -- 8.9 inches as of 2:20 p.m. -- Mott said.

So how did so much rain cause so much damage here, while Houston remained relatively dry?

Mott explained that Houston only had to deal with rainfall from Ike.

But Northwest Indiana first had heavy rain courtesy of Tropical Storm Lowell, which came off the Pacific Northwest, followed by rainfall from Ike and another cold front.

Until about 4:30 p.m. Sunday, "That all lead to steady rain that never stopped," Mott said, causing the rivers to "rise big time."

And from that, came a lot of the flooding troubles in the region -- including in Lake Station near Deep River, where Police Chief Mike Stills said the town was ravaged with the highest floodwater he had ever seen.



I can attest to that last paragraph!!! I can't even get out of lake station. The river has taken over everything. I'm hoping I can make it out today. I hate feeling trapped.”

“there are signs all the way down here that say 80 is closed up there”

“Either we just had an F0 pass by or an downburst. Whipping high winds in all directions, incredible hail, then sheets of rain, and now it's close to freezing cold and the clouds are just flying away very fast. It's clear and sunny now. Awesome!”

“Tree...has it not been insane today? I went to lunch and it was dark and pouring rain...came out of the mall & the sun was so bright I couldnt see. Got back to work and up to my desk and it was dark and rainy again. A huge rainbow was spotted around 12 and there was snow at 4!!!”

“I forgot to mention the magnificent rainbow that occurred after this freak weather thing. It was very intense. The air afterwards smelled and felt very different, too. Must be something about the high elevation air.”

“It's 37 degrees and going down in the 20s tonight with a hard freeze warning....

...my feet are COLD!....”

“It's 32 in Gautier right now.”

“I thought you moved farther north????”

“About half and half between places.”

“35 degrees now...brrrrrr...I'm going to bed & get warm!!!”

“Its 5.4 here. Thank God for the woodstove.”

“It's 10 degrees right now. I don't even want to check what the windchill is. It took a while to warm up the car this morning, that's for sure.

It's currently 22 in Jacksonville, FL. I'm sure my Mom's got a lot of something to say about it.”

“It's 24 on the MS Gulf Coast this morning.”

“It's already warmed up to 0 here in Upstate NY”

“It's 52*F @ 5:20 am -gona rain finally.”

“God this Global Warming is killing me...(LOL)”

“The snowing is melting but it is still colder than..well I dont know what. Suppossed to be in the 60's by Sunday...”

“

It's 37 degrees and going down in the 20s tonight with a hard freeze warning....

...my feet are COLD!....”
divinity

You should have come to Florida. You could put your feet on the little space heater next to mine!”

“OMG I am still sea sick.
the wind is so bad that our ferry was rockin and rollin..

(still did not see what was so funny Treebeard)

wish my desk would stay still...”

“It got up to friggen 50* yesterday. WTF?”

“How does FYAO look, Zac? You're closest.”

“The snow is melting fast. By work, all that is left are some dirty snowbanks. It looks like the peaks are holding onto some snow, but I have no idea what the snow is like. ie is it rotten snow? The good news is temps are going to be in the 20s and 30s today and get colder by the weekend.”

“I saw a complete rainbow over the ocean from my office window this morning.”

“Yesterday afternoon in the Adirondacks temps were in the mid 50s and sunny. Within an hour temps dropped to the low 30s and it was snowing.”

“Yesterday afternoon in Mississippi, it was 94. Within an hour it was still 94.

And it isn't even hot yet.”

“The coast is a little cooler.”

“just this morning a squirrel was roasting HOT outside my house :)”

“It's warmer here in Upstate NY than Jacksonville, FL. What's going on?”

“My parents live in Jacksonville, FL., and they're freezing their butts off again.”

“Global Warming gone nuts..?”

“Whee, just reached 32 degrees. I just checked all of the water lines for pond filtration; I have to take a heat gun to some of them to clear the ice this afternoon. Freezing from the inside out. Yikes.”

“Al Gore farted towards the north”

“15 degrees for us last night on the Gulf Coast!!!...I'm FREEZING HERE!!!!!”

“We're at 65 degrees right now, and it keeps getting warmer. We have long, angry red whip lines of storm still coming at us, too, then followed by cold, down to around 29 degrees or so. All this rain, followed by a freeze...HPM may need to stay home tomorrow because of icy conditions. Darn. ;)

Of course, Laurel already has tomorrow off from school. Teacher planning/ potential snow or ice day.”

“We had two feet of awesome snow, then it rained like a son of a #&%!$ and the wind blew like crazy, and now it looks like spring thaw outside...

:(”

“We have 40 degrees, lots of sun and high winds today. 2 people have been killed in the county by falling trees. Not good.”

“Same here twigeater, minus the two feet of snow. We lost all of the six inches we had. It got up to almost 60 yesterday, but it's supposed to hit 0 by the end of the week.”

“Same here north of Lumberzac.”