Storm clouds pass over the town of Raymond, northwest of Racine, late Sunday.
Posted on 06/09/2008 5:52:38 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
We're OK, we're on a hill, but the fields around us have standing water in them and a road I use to get to work was closed for most of the day, yesterday. We had a total of a few hundred in sales at the Garden Center yesterday; normally, a Sunday in early June would see sales in the tens of thousands.
I'm sick of being wet. I'm sick of picking up blown over trees and plants. But mainly, I'm sick of the smell of wet dog, LOL!
Storm clouds pass over the town of Raymond, northwest of Racine, late Sunday.
Boaters paddle on a flooded street Sunday near E. Forest Hill and S. 15th avenues in Oak Creek. The boaters were later warned by Oak Creek police to stay out of the floodwaters because they could be dangerous.
Despite warnings, this motorist chooses to drive down a flooded street on the southside of Waukesha and somehow is successful.
Flooding blows off a manhole at the intersection of Fond du Lac Ave and North Sherman Blvd.
Hang in there. It WILL stop raining. Cource it’ll start snowing instead.
Two vacant buildings that once housed the Acapulco restaurant and bar at S. 6th St. and W. National Avenue collapsed this afternoon in heavy rains.
Storms, flooding cause 8 deaths, damage from Midwest to East
Associated Press
Posted: June 9, 2008
The wicked weekend storms that pounded Wisconsin flooded communities from the Midwest to the East Coast and killed at least eight people.
In Michigan, two delivery workers for The Grand Rapids Press drowned early Sunday when their car became submerged in a creek that washed out a road near Lake Michigan in Saugatuck Township, the newspaper said.
Two other people in the state were killed by falling trees, one man drowned, and a woman died when high winds blew a recreational vehicle on top of her, authorities said.
In Indiana, rescuers in boats continued to pluck people from rising waters Sunday, a day after more than 10 inches of rain deluged much of the state. At least one person died, a man who drowned in his vehicle about 50 miles south of Indianapolis, a state official said. Another person was reported missing after falling off a boat about 30 miles southwest of Indianapolis.
In Iowa, pumps and thousands of sandbags were sent to the Iowa City area, where officials fear a reservoir could top a spillway and flood the city of about 63,000 by Tuesday.
In Connecticut, lightning struck a pavilion at a state park, killing one person and injuring four.
In Nebraska, at least one tornado hit the Omaha area with little to no warning as people slept Sunday morning, damaging several dozen homes and businesses. No major injuries were reported.
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=759986
LOL! We’re stuck in the same weather pattern we were in all winter when this was 100” of SNOW, versus what FEELS like 100” of rain. :(
At least my 300’ well will be full for the next ten years! :)
Goog gravy, girl.............stay safe.
I remember when you got flooded out two, maybe three years ago?
Later on this summer you need to send tomatoes! :)
Actually, my garden plants look OK for now. They may start turning a bit yellow if we don’t have some dry weather, but what can you do? And this certainly isn’t effecting the WEEDS at all; lots of healthy thistles around. Grrrrrr!
I feel bad for Antony (I took over his job this year) who is starting his first season as a self-supporting Market Farmer. I’ll have to call him to see how he’s doing, because he’s in a low-lying area and it can’t be pretty!
I grew up in Reedsburg and my Mom’s Parents were in Wonewoc. I can just about imagine looking out my Grandparents kitchen window across the track towards the Baraboo River. That whole cow pasture must be under water about now!
Personally, I prefer it too wet over too dry. Everything’s so green and the birds are stuffing themselves with mosquitos.
That is a good point. See? There’s always a Silver Lining!
I guess my brother won’t be chopping haylage any time soon, eh?
Everything around here is yellow -— except for the weeds!!!!!
If it weren’t for weeds, I would have nothing green.
I guess Sue is right, I really should plant rice, maybe, just maybe it will quit raining and the temps will return to normal :)
EWW! Wet dog! Our kitty has the good sense (and indoor “facilities”) to stay out of the rain!
Daughter is taking care of my grandson today and tomorrow - Colubus schools closed for flooding, so she’s getting more time with him that planned. My son had a conference, and I got sick, so couldn’t take care of him.
FIL lives in between La Farge & Viola. Half of their land is underwater, but they have their home at the top of the hill, so they’re okay.
Sump pump ran most of the night. Sure is NOISY! We have an underground spring, that is only a problem in heavy rains.
I see on wkowtv.com, Sauk County officials are asking people to stay off of ALL the roads.
It’s not fun. I’m predicting lots of property damage and lots of street & drainage repairs needed in lots of our little Cow Towns.
http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/full_loop.php
We might be spared today, but if that “blob” moves a tiny hair north, we’re in for it again.
(For DU Lurkers who don’t know where the “Midwest” is, move the map to the right, LOL!)
It’s flooding from Iowa all the way to Ohio. Portions of Indiana got 12 inches of rain in four hours Saturday. Rivers there are reaching highs not seen since 1913.
Stay safe, Diana!
I feel for you. Been there, done that! We don’t have any hills here, but pretty much everybody has a boat! LOL
I’ve often wondered if the reason there weren’t big cities, etc here when the white men came is because the weather was jsut too unpredictable/unstable. Maybe we’ve just been living in a fool’s paradise and things are getting back to “normal”. The natives were certainly smart enough—maybe smarter than we are!
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