The weekend started fast. At 4:15 on Friday my daughter, Amanda, called me at work. Her husband, Tom, had been taken to the hospital from where he worked and she needed me to come get the kids. Come to find out he was having an appendicitis attack and was heading to surgery. Everything went fine and he got to go home Saturday. It got late Friday night so I put the kids to sleep here and Amanda ended up staying here for the night too. So we babysat Friday night and most of Saturday while she got Tom picked up and settled at home.
While all of this was going on, we had major storms coming through in waves. South of Indianapolis got hit especially bad with heavy rain. A big swash of south central Indiana received 10 and 11 inches of rain over a short period of time. Rivers and creeks swelled and so did some lakes. Local TV cut into programming to show where a lake was dammed but overflowing as we watched the water broke through and spilled into the next lake which quickly rose and broke through it's dam flooding everything in it's path. This domino effect continued through several counties now. It's just too much water at once and nowhere to go. Things are really a mess and right now there are 21 counties under a state of emergency. 2 of those counties being the ones that were hit by tornadoes earlier.
Here's some pictures:
Schafer Lake Dam
Close up
For the Public Enemies fans, here's one from Moorseville, In., Dillinger's hometown:
Pioneer Park, Mooresville, IN
A view of Columbus, In. I saw on Rod's Blog that Columbus WI was having some flooding too.
Columbus, IN June 7, 2008
Time for me to get busy, I still have some yard work to get done and some laundry. Plus there's a race to watch. Take care....
Karen
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