My area is okay, Walter. Only one tree knocked down and a few electricity problems. JPB's area (as you know from having been there) is more open and less protected. JPB may have had some weather-related damage.
I hope we hear from her soon, and that all is well.
We are basically underwater. We live at the back of a circle/block. One side of the circle is impassable. The other side is underwater but not so deep that we can't get through. There are no storm sewers in our village, just drainage swales that run between the properties. The swale along our house is two-to-six feet deep. It was to it's limits during last night's storm. The swale across the street was over it's banks, meaning water was coming across the road to our yard (instead of under the road via the culvert), flowing across our driveway, and eventually getting to our swale. Our driveway was under 2-3 inches of water at the time. We've had almost 10 inches of rain in the past week with another 2-3 inches forecast today. We have about 4" of standing water in both the front and back yards. No trees down and we still have power but we are very, very wet.
Sorry to hear that, JPB. All we can do now is hope for the best. Good luck to you.
Sorry about your situation, JPB.
I really can imagine how it looks alike .... we've a similar situation around here (not in our part of the village - it started 150 yards away :wink: )
nix the cows and it's very similar to my front yard, Walter.
I just wrote to my son in Austin recently, because we want to help him buy a house, and that's one of the things I told him to be aware of; flooding areas. I remember this from our home in Naperville; we lived on top of a small hill, and that saved us any flooding of our basement while our neighbors suffered.
Horrible pictures out of the midwest on the news last night. Sorry you're in the midst of it JPB.
Thanks for the warm thoughts. We're fine, just wet. No rain since early this morning. The next round is expected late this afternoon and overnight tonight.
I heard last night's commute was horrendous. I'm glad I wasn't in it.
JPB wrote:
I heard last night's commute was horrendous. I'm glad I wasn't in it.
Well, speaking about horrendous commuting .... That's not only weather-related, I've heard.
true -- it's always horrendous, but yesterday there were trees and power lines down on the rail tracks and long stretches of some of the highways were closed for hours. I'm usually glad that I don't commute downtown. Last night I was particularly glad.
JPB wrote:true -- it's always horrendous, but yesterday there were trees and power lines down on the rail tracks and long stretches of some of the highways were closed for hours. I'm usually glad that I don't commute downtown. Last night I was particularly glad.
Actually, I was referring to my own "experiences" - a trauma, I'm still suffer from ...
there, there, Walter... let it go.... breathe ..... it's ok..... all better now....
just make sure you get on the right train next time!
You really think it would be so easy? I'll make that a topic at the next meeting in my Chattanooga Choo Choo Self Help Group. :wink:
Don't forget to include me in that "group." I need it badly. LOL
I should join that group.
Signed,
woman who couldn't figure out where to punch her train ticket in some station north of Rome. It's that odd train system that goes from Viterbo to Rome, different from all the others. There was a series of possibilities, and I ran myself ragged between them, back and forth and back and forth and back and forth; no one to ask. If I remember right, I gave up, got on the train, and that was the one train you could punch the ticket inside the train. Exhausting, given that I was lumbering with a laden duffle bag and heavy purse. At least it was going to Rome.
We don't accept wimmin because they created our evil!
Okay, just as a sub-group, in the kitchen.
