MBM Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 I'm in a suburb of Chicago and we got just over 5" in the past 24 hours. Oak Brook got over 6.5". So many places are flooding. More rain on its way. Anyone else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarbecueMom Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 I don't know how much we've had so far here in St. Louis, but it's a lot. Multiple flood warnings. We got a year off from flooding last year, so I guess it's time to make up for that. My driveway looks like a lake. DH is being sent home early from work due to flooding, so it must be bad on the IL side, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MBM Posted April 18, 2013 Author Share Posted April 18, 2013 Oh, no! I hope the water recedes for you. Yeah, this is almost the worst I've seen it in our area, just north of Chicago. Today my son's high school flooded in the basement where they have classrooms, the roof was leaking like crazy in parts and then another section caved in. Just driving there was complete pandemonium. Meanwhile, his chemistry teacher was showing them how their not-very-cheap electron microscope worked. LOL. They might want to put some of that money into the roof. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KatieJ Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 Yes, West Michigan is flooding. Roads closed, a nursing home is being evacuated, it's not good here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PinkInTheBlue Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 We are visiting in Chicago this week and the hotel we are in is alongside a river and it's severely flooded. The cars outside my window are flooded all the way up their hoods so the only thing out of the water is the car windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MomtoCandJ Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 Same with East Michigan. One school is currently having parents help empty out classes that haven't flooded yet and salvage what they can out of the others. All the schools in that district are closed tomarrow. Northwoods university evacuated student housing and closed campus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynn Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 It just keeps pollening and pollening here. Rain would be good to settle some of this pollen and wash it away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ottakee Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 We are in West Michigan and there is water over roads that I have never seen water over. We are starting to build an ark soon here. The rain is welcome as we had a severe draught last year and only average snow fall this year. We just didnt' need 4-5-6+ inches in 24 hours after 14 days straight of rain before this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie Smith Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 Near Toronto Ontario and joking about the rainy season we didn't know we had till now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennifer in MI Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 Eastern MI here. LOTS of rain. We still don't have flooding, thank God!!! But a lot of areas around us do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remudamom Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 Kansas and we had floods last week. Barely keeping the creeks in their banks this week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarbecueMom Posted April 19, 2013 Share Posted April 19, 2013 We just had a flash flooding death in our county. Creeks are lakes, subdivisions and a few town areas are being evacuated. By boat. We're going to attempt to go out in a little bit, hoping the highway on-ramp that runs over the creek is passable (don't worry, if it looks even slightly run over, we won't even try). I won't be really worried until the rivers start flooding. The town my mom lives in was pretty much annexed by the Mississippi River in the '93 flood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marylou Posted April 19, 2013 Share Posted April 19, 2013 I'll just put it this way . . I can definitely see how 40 days and 40 nights would be catastrophic :ohmy: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annie G Posted April 19, 2013 Share Posted April 19, 2013 90 minutes west of Chicago- lots of flooding in our area. Railroad tracks washed out, roads closed...yuck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happi duck Posted April 19, 2013 Share Posted April 19, 2013 Yep, 7 inches! We started bailing out our basement at 4am. I went to bed at 7am but poor dh still had to work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hannah Posted April 19, 2013 Share Posted April 19, 2013 Here at the other end of the world our weather is also wacky. Its way too late late in the season to still be getting summer rains, but we are. Our winters are supposed to be dry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MomtoCandJ Posted April 19, 2013 Share Posted April 19, 2013 Well my power is out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hannah Posted April 19, 2013 Share Posted April 19, 2013 Well my power is out :crying: Hopefully not for long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MomtoCandJ Posted April 19, 2013 Share Posted April 19, 2013 Well it was on at 9 when I got up. Dd is still sleeping, she was up at 3:30 when we discovered the outage (I guess my dog is afraid of the dark) and didn't go back to sleep until 7. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandelion Posted April 19, 2013 Share Posted April 19, 2013 Just lots of snow here in southern Colorado. Sorry to hear about the flooding! Sounds awful. :( I hope everyone affected by floods right now stays safe and that the damage is minimal (our basement flooded 4 years ago from heavy rain - one of the worst experiences of my life). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MomtoCandJ Posted April 19, 2013 Share Posted April 19, 2013 I think that maybe the one advantage of living in a mobile home, the water has to be rather high to flood it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tammyla Posted April 19, 2013 Share Posted April 19, 2013 Oh yes, more rain than we've had in months...maybe years. We are 9'+ inches for April and around 6' of that fell in the last 48 hours. Whispering...it isn't raining at this moment. More is expected and we already have creeks over flowing and the rivers are being watched. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LifeLovePassion Posted April 19, 2013 Share Posted April 19, 2013 nope, just 8-10 inches of snow in the last 24 hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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