If you follow me on Twitter, you know that we’ve had a rough weekend. With Ike having descend upon the Country, many have it far worse than us right now. But we are not without our special brand of drama. This is a picture from yesterday looking out from my driveway:
Yeah, we’re experiencing a *tiny* bit of flooding. I took this picture standing in my garage, so you can see where the water was. Some really not smart person thought they were cool and tried to drive our street. Since it finally stopped raining, the waters have receded somewhat, but it seems like this is going to take a long time to drain away.
With the Country focused on Texas, I’m pretty sure most people don’t realize the serious flooding going on in this area (Chicago/Northwest Indiana). Our town received about 15 inches of rain in two days. Seriously.
Thankfully we’ve not had any damage, but we have had close calls (like the pump getting overwhelmed and the water being a few small inches from flooding our basemnt), which means that our nerves are shot.
The kids alternate between being really excited and wanting to swim in it and asking if we can go buy a boat, and totally freaking out because they are so massively off routine and don’t understand “what is wrong with this world” (as my 4yo put it).
If you look in that picture you’ll see the two small transformer boxes on the right hand side. The one on the left? That’s our internet. Yeah. Mama is blogging from her sister’s house down the street right now.
It’s almost time to close the laptop and hike up my sweats and step into the frigid cold water and wade back down to my house. I’m hoping I don’t encounter any wild life swimming around along the way, because slipping and dropping my computer and my phone in the river-that-used-to-be-my-street would really not be cool. At all.
But we are very grateful, because yes, it could be SO. much. worse.
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Oh my goodness! Now I’m anxious to go get my Trib from the driveway and see what the local section has to say…
I’m in Naperville, and we’ve also had quite a bit of flooding — not nearly that bad, though! (It did take three tries for my husband to get to church though due to road closures…)
Hang in there!!
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We’ll be thinking about you all! Good luck!
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What IS wrong with this world? Most astute question!
Glad you are ok but that looks bad- no wonder your nerves are shot!
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Wow.
I’ve been mentioning you guys when people ask how we are. You most assuredly have/had it worse than us. I will continue to keep you in my thoughts and hope minimal damage has happened.
“what is wrong with this world”
Your son = cutest thing ever!
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The world filling up with water around you, and you still find a way to blog? You’re my hero!
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Hope things are drying up. That sure is a lot of rain!
Jen
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I am glad you didn’t have much damage. That’s a scary lot of water to have right in front of your house! I’m thankful things seem to be drying up today, but I wish we’d see some sunshine.
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Oh my goodness! Yeah, I didn’t realize this was in your area at all. I’m glad you are relatively unscathed, but I can imagine it must be exhausting and horribly disconcerting for the boys.
The sun will come out tomorrow?
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Wow, you did get your street hit hard. Ours isn’t too bad. We only have part of our carpet that got wet in the basement. We just moved some furniture around is all. As you said, it could have been much worse. I was one of those crazy people out driving yesterday, but in my defense I was taking a shop vac to a friend. That counts as a rescue, right? Thankfully I didn’t get stuck like that red truck, but man, it was scary driving through that stuff. Glad everyone is ok!
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I am going to be in your area in November. I’d like it to NOT flood then. Can you do anything about this?
(also, glad you guys are alright
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Wow! That is an amazing picture. Honestly if I didn’t read everybody’s blog form the Chicago area I wouldn’t have had a clue what was going on. I like your positive attitude though that it could have been worse. I hope the water recedes soon and the boys get their routine back. Hang in there.
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WOW!! Thats a crazy pic!
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Wow… that is amazing! We’re not really that far from you and we didn’t get ANY rain… only 70mph winds.
Hope you’re drying up. did your basement flood or anything?
brittany
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