Devastating flooding in my area

“I am too tired (lazy?) to copy and post this all here again. Check this thread, which includes photos:

http://forums.backpacker.com/eve/forums?a=tpc&s=865105&f=852107219&m=5311027433&r=4731038433#4731038433”

“slacker
Sorry about the flooding. It sucks.”

“yall are flooding and we're gonna turn to dust.

good luck with it all.”

“we had another 2" of rain last night...and a tornado again. I'm getting used to hearing the siren now. our total for the last two weeks is now about 18.5 inches of rain.”

“My rain guage registered 2.31 inches this morning. I will need to add the daily totals up when I get home tonight. Gotta be close to 20 inches.”

“WOW...yeah we are hearing about it...I am just wondering why we don't hear the HORROR stories ..maybe because the midwesterners are a self sufficient proud lot.

Good luck let us know if we can help.”

“Don't worry, XL. All that water is heading to New Orleans.”

“Looks like terrible flooding. We get lots of floods in PA. and the last few years we've had severe damage from floods.”

“Tornado sirens went off in parts of Northwest Indiana.

Tornado was confirmed on the ground in Bolingbrook IL.

I got up to go to the bathroom and it was partial ly cloudy. Got in the head and the lights flickered and the walls started shaking. I thought someone was trapped in the ceiling. I got out and noticed cicular wind patterns blowing trash all over the place. Thought for sure the alarms would be going off.

Train service out to far western communities has been terminated for the evening. Trees down everywhere.

Gotta love it!”

“You Illini better grab your ankles cause there's another one on the ground!!!

Champaign area this time, and headed my way from what I hear...”

“Al Gore says the flooding is your fault.”

“We are on back up generaters at work....

I hope my trailor is ok. I can't reach anyone out there.”

“I thought you had a house in the big shltty SC? They don't allow trailer there do they?
What about Mike and the critters?”

“Mike's at work. He's find. I don't live in the city, mean. I live in cornfields.”

“Hey----this isnt the end:

ADDITIONAL ROUNDS OF
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED FRIDAY INTO FRIDAY
EVENING. TOTAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES ARE EXPECTED THROUGH
LATE FRIDAY NIGHT...WITH ISOLATED HIGHER AMOUNTS POSSIBLE. SOILS
ARE SATURATED ACROSS THE AREA AND ANY ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL
MAY LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING.”

“Well best wishes for you home then SC. I really do hope it's ok and all the critters too!

I live in cornfields too... ain't it great?”

“I get lost in the corn all the time. Not too bad when it's knee high, but anything taller and I can't see any landmarks LOL!



UGH.....its going to be a wild night....”

“I'm straight south of Crawfordsville so no worries here. But for the Chicago crew:



BEND OVER, IT'S OVER!!!”

“please....please, no more rain,...the river was lapping at the road when we left home for work today, if this keeps up, the road will wash out.....please please please make it stop....so much damage, trees down in the hospital parking lot, the sky is getting dark again...

This weather is really getting to me, being on edge all the time really really SUCKS. I'm begining to hate that tornado siren....I should of put our bug out bags in the car before work. Not sure if we will be making it home tonight.
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“Well, the up side is that you may get to spend the night in the most expensive hotel in the world.”

“ah hell mean, if I have to spend the night, mike and I are going to crash with JimmySaN and drink some of that home brew of HIS LOL!
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“#&%!$, this round is going to be worse........”

“Buckle down Nicole, and then go enjoy some of Jim's brew. While you are ther tell him I need to know if he's coming on the KT with us. Windigrrl & I need to start working out all the details for water and shuttles.

Seriously though, you guy be careful up there.”

“Jim may not even have power....nor ruby...or WK...ya'll need to check in if you can.

lots of damage out that way, buildings have collapsed, lots of people hurt, some killed...

its the end of the freakin world up here.
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“The sky has an errie cast, as I look out my 5th story office windows, I face the direction the storms are coming from....there are no lights in the city around the hospital, making it even more errie. Its only seven, and as dark as midnight with a odd cast to the clouds which seem to be boiling and rolling, in the distance I can see the second round, lighting, darkness, anger....”

“I can see lightning stikes now, and hear the thunder, its approaching fast. Even the State Street whores have taken cover tonight.”

“It's here....I've been advised to leave my offfice for a better spot in the hospital....signing off.”

“Anyone ever been sturck by lightening? I felt a strange sensation just as lightening hit and I was outside. I feel okay, just sent a weird sensation through me.

These are the worst storms I have ever seen or can remember”

“Flash Flood Warning
Flash Flood Watch
Flood Warning
Severe Thunderstorm Watch

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Chicago&state=IL&site=LOT”

“hey wounded knee, have you heard anything about portage???”

“#%$# my FIL called, his house is flooded in Munster....

Asked mike and I to go over there after work to help...the power is out and all that...

joy...

I would really like to make sure my place is ok first but FIL sounded desperate.
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“A funnel cloud went right over the hospital here, they did not call a code grey like they are supposed to because they 'didn't want to scare the paitients' instead they covered the windows with drapes and moved some into hallways....lightning struck the front entrence area of our building.....”

“Three counties just declared Federal Disaster Areas here in MN: Houston, Winona and Fillmore (my county - and home to badly flooded Rushford)

TV news said homeowners could get up to $28,000 depending upon damage plus low interest loans. Small bizes have to go to state. I heard 98 percent have been damaged in Rushford since it was the downtown that flooded. They don't know how many will continue.

The Rushford newspaper guy is setting up shop in one of our five offices, that we were just gonna close Sept. 1, but rented for another month. Cities can apply for flood mitigation.

Hey, SC, where are ya???”

“lizs-have you been affected here? I cannot tell from your post above”

“wounded knee...I have been struck by lightening only it knocked me to the ground and out cold for a few seconds...I didn't know what had hit me...witnesses told me they had seen a bolt hit a TV antennae then a much smaller bolt bounce to the tip of my umbrella...you were lucky and way too close as that's what being near a strike feels like...”

“I was just standing near my garage holding a wooden broom. It happened so damn fast.”

“FIL's house is a loss....

thank god he had flood insurance.
mike was raised there, all those years not a single drop of water even in the basement.....

I was thrilled just to have power when we finially were able to get home. It's still raining....”

“Nicole, where did the water come from? Is the house near the river and if so, did it over flow?

Or did it come in through the sewage system?”

“it came through the basement and the street.”

“Just Wondering, Mata --- was that a 'regular' umbrella, or a golf type umbrella with a non-metal shaft?  ”

“Damn, sorry to hear about your FIL Spirit.
Y'all hang in there.

Anybody that can use a hand, please put the word out.”

“Hate to say this Nicole but I bet the flood insurance doesn't cover.

This happened last year in Highland when everyone's basement flooded, including the people that had flood insurance. I bet the insurance company clasifies this are stormwater/sewage/sepage.”

“I did some scouting around here in daylight..wanted to make sure the road was passable to work today. Lots of houses and yards flooded around here, but I didn't pull over to take pictures, it just didnt feel right. Did take some pictures of burns ditch though, and some water covering county line road.


The water was flowing over the road in this picture though it doesnt look like it here, I was able to barely get through it, the next one I had to turn around, they'd closed the road.

Here's the road I was worried about:

This is my way out of here.

Lots of water...


people's houses along here are flooded.”

“http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-070824weathermain-story,1,4660280.story?page=2

Expecting more storms today....i'm taking hte day off...”

“Good luck Nicole.”

“http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070824..._re_us/flooding

"In Dyer, Ind., 30 miles south of Chicago, authorities began evacuating St. Margaret Mercy Hospital as water from a creek behind the building began seeping in. About 70 patients were being moved to other hospitals, spokeswoman Maria Ramos said."

I sometimes work at this one, when they need me and are short handed, but usually at the one in hammond.....YIKES!
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“i called a co-worker to confirm this, and yes, though the artical only breifly touches on it, the hospital was a mess, they had to evacuate the paitients through the only dry area on the first floor, and the workers had to wade through muddy filthy water to get the paitients out of there.....what a mess....”