In case you haven't heard. A large part of Indiana is in a "state of emergency." The flooding started Friday night/Saturday morning. Nicky & I were on a retreat and scheduled to be home Saturday evening. All the roads were closed out of Indianapolis to take us home. So we ended up staying in a hotel Saturday night. We got home on Sunday but it was not an easy route.
Part of I-70 is still closed because of a bridge that collapsed. At least that's what I heard was the reason. Not much is being said on the news about all that. I guess because no one was hurt. Everything going South of Clay City is flooded still, so I can't get to work. Chad can get to Terre Haute, but he has to go up to the interstate. The highways we would normally take are all shut down.
Friday night while we were at the retreat we had a tornado that was sited close to the camp grounds. The wind was circling, we heard a "train" and stuff was blown all around the yard, but it didn't hit us, it was just north of us. That was the 6th tornado in Indiana since June 1st. Two tornadoes hit within 24 hours of each other in the town that my dad's new farm is at. He managed to get to the farm to make sure everything was okay, but all the roads are flooded now. The cows are fine, the farm itself is not flooded right now. The rivers are hitting the levels that livestock in low areas might drown, so I am sure a lot of farmers are doing what they can to avoid loosing their animals.
My brother-in-laws parents has to row boat into their home to get clothes out. All the roads are flooded there, so I have not been able to go see how much damage is down. I think the Eel river is coming down finally, so that area should be opened up soon, assuming the bridges are fine. I have heard that there are bridges out on the highways. Several levies broke causing more flooding. It's been crazy here.
Yesterday when I was on my way to work I took this picture.
The day before, this road was not flooded. People from our church took it to get to church. By Sunday evening it was flooded. I was given another side road to get around it. That worked Monday at 8:30am, but by 3pm Monday that road was covered in water just like this. The sad part is that this road normally goes through to a highway and has big beautiful corn & bean fields on each side of it. I was in a Pioneer Seed company's storage facility drive when I took this picture. No grain anywhere in site, just large lakes everywhere. I think we're all in survival mode still right now. There were still sandbagging levies to protect towns south of us yesterday. We had more rain last night & more on its way this weekend. Terre Haute had open sewage in the streets, water was still knee high on some roads there yesterday. I don't think we'll feel the full affects of this for a while, but the shock is starting to wear off. The good news is, we're all safe & do have ways out at least one direction right now. Our house is not flooded, so I'm thankful for that. I'll take the small things right now.
Update...5:57pm Tuesday June 10th, 2008 Here is a movie I took with my cell phone, you can here the moving water.
Here are some additional pictures from this location as well.
In the last picture the yellow line in on the left. This was the very edge of the road and it was about 6 inches deep here. I did witness a truck going through the water, but he was almost swept off the road. Needless to say, this will be the first route to open on my way to work so, it looks like I have tomorrow at home as well. I'll try again on Thursday. Things are crazy here, but my dad did say that he can get to Terre Haute now, so the water is going down and the roads are being fixed. I guess I70 is open again now too. So hopefully we're on the upside of things at this point.
6 comments:
Oh my gosh, I am so glad your property or house hasn't flooded. That is awful. I have never lived through serious flooding like that, but growing up in the Midwest, I knew people who have. BB has while he was in Des Moines. Wow, I hope the water recedes soon. But no work can't be all bad?
I'm slightly bummed. I found another route around that isn't flooded, so I'll be going to work. It's the right thing, but I had decided to take the day off so I was in that frame of mind and then I found out these other roads were open and I have to switch gears to be back in work mode. But at least the water is definately going down here.
I guess that means more flooding for someone else south of us, but that's nature, I can't control that.
It's amazing, with all the rain we get here in Portland(and we get a lot), we hardly ever have flooding. I remember the flood of '94 when I was stranded in Des Moines and our water supply had been tainted. That was a bad summer. We will keep you in our prayers.
Unbelievable. I hope you were ok getting to work today.
That is just amazing. I'm glad the floods didn't reach your house and that everyone is safe.
Wow - I had no idea it was effecting you. We heard about Iowa over here but I haven't kept up. Hope you are drying out by now.
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