Our First Flood

Last Thursday, it rained quite a bit during the night- about 4 inches. Yikes! They had issued a flood warning (or maybe it was a watch, I can’t remember) but like usual, there was no flooding anywhere Friday morning when I went to work. However, by the time I went out to get some lunch around 11:45, the creek that goes through the middle of town was flooded and they were closing down streets. The river on the east side of town ended up flooding too and by Friday afternoon/evening, there were several streets in town that were closed. I picked Rob up from work around 3:30 that day and we drove past one of the flooded areas and Rob asked, “What are all these people doing out here?” There were just a ton of people out walking and riding their bikes and he couldn’t figure out what was going on. I told him, “They’re all just being nosy and taking lots of pictures!” I wasn’t able to get any photos myself so I've been trying to get some so that I could share them here. I finally managed to find someone who got a few around town so here they are- my favorite is the one with the two guys in wetsuits in the Target parking lot.






I thought the streets would all be closed off for days but most of them were open again by Saturday evening and by Monday, everything was pretty much back to normal. Both the creek and river were at the “major flood” stage so that was really surprising to me. There was no flooding by our house so that was never a worry for us. It rained a good amount last night and there was another flood warning, in addition to a tornado watch, but none of that happened. We are doing fine- just lots of rain, thunder and lightning but all in managable amounts.