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Q: Rain Rain Go Away
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hopefulmjz
Extremely eHealthy
My other aunt lives up there, and she has horses & cattle in a couple different pastures. Well one pasture is across the street, and those horse and cattle were swimming!
They knew that before they got up there, but once they came to the drive to where my grandma's house is, it was completely washed out. It's a gravel driveway type thing about 1/2 mile long. There is a very small creek that flows under this road through a big pipe (?) thingie that runs off the spring up by the house......that little trickle turned into a 6 foot ditch. My aunt and my uncle had to go clear up on the hillside and walk all the way to the house, where water was gushing out of the spring and when they got in the house, there was water about 2 feet deep (so far) in the basement. They live on the border of Soldiers Grove and Clayton. In Readstown (also a neighboring town) where my grandpa is burried, the cemetery is under water, and all that can be seen of his grave stone is the very top. The town of Gays Mills (neighboring town) was evacuated and I guess some guys house up rooted and floated away. The nursing home in the Grove was also evacuated. There are 3 very big rivers around there, the Wisconsin river, the Mississippi and the Kickapoo. Rain is supposed to keep up all week. I don't know what will be happening for this weekend, as Saturday is the wake for my great aunt, but the building this was going to be at is flooded, and the church is in a different town BUT all the roads leading there are closed. They sent out the national guard, I hope things get cleared up soon. My mom took some pictures while she was there. I haven't yet seen them, they got back late last night. Just a bit of a newsflash from WI.
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tinkinpink84
Especially eHealthy
wow , i dont watch the news often here , we are a little behind, i never heard of the flooding, hope they are all ok and safe , that sucks about there cattle and stuff poor animals 
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young Girl
Especially eHealthy
yeah texas has had severe flooding all summer long
we are going to be hit with hurricane dean (estimated to be catagory 4 when it hits the coastline wednsday) pretty soon so yay more rain just what we need
we are going to be hit with hurricane dean (estimated to be catagory 4 when it hits the coastline wednsday) pretty soon so yay more rain
just what we need
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tinkinpink84
Especially eHealthy
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Aryeani
Experienced User
| the_girlfreind wrote: |
| yeah texas has had severe flooding all summer long
we are going to be hit with hurricane dean (estimated to be catagory 4 when it hits the coastline wednsday) pretty soon so yay more rain just what we need |
It's raining here now. Living 45 minutes from the coast is not really a good thing. Yay Gulf of Mexico?
Hey Suzy, let's go swimming?
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young Girl
Especially eHealthy
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young Girl
Especially eHealthy
| Aryeani wrote: | ||
It's raining here now. Living 45 minutes from the coast is not really a good thing. Yay Gulf of Mexico? Hey Suzy, let's go swimming? |
ha ha yay!!! ill be right over! ill bring my tanning oil
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sandyallen
Extremely eHealthy
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hopefulmjz
Extremely eHealthy
Thanks for your concern Sandy.
As of yesterday afternoon the water level was down slightly from what it had been....but they are still expecting more rain. As for my grandma's basement, all the important stuff (Furnace, and such) is up off the ground since they do get the occasional bit of water down there. They live right down in a valley...only this time the water was higher and the water got to I think the furnace, so that's all my grandma is worried about. Otherwise she doesn't keep much in the basement, maybe some junk. But as far as the house goes, that's in pretty good shape. They did get a sump pump going for the basement tho. Her road/driveway is another story. I'll add some pics.
As for my aunts house, she was able to get all the horses and cattle across the highway into a higher pasture on the hillside....so all of those ones are fine, they just have to make friends with the other horses since they're in a pasture together (It's about 75 acres, so they're not exactly crowded)
For my great aunts wake, it's still a go. They may just have to move where the lunch will be served....but that's no biggie. We have family coming from both coasts, so it's hard to cancel.
This is a building and park next to the Kickapoo river
Along side the road on the way to my Aunts house. Notice where the tops of the trees are, and you can see the water is moving pretty good if you look at the telephone pole
This is what's left of the road to my Grandma's house, this is about where the road begins, and goes back about 1/2 mile past where the people are standing.
Close up of all the layers it went through.
This is the house, if you look at the bottom of the picture you can see where the water literally cut through the yard. There was a small ditch to start with....but it got bigger.
You can see again where the water cut through, and then just the bit of water left on the lawn. That field is/was a tobacco field.
As of yesterday afternoon the water level was down slightly from what it had been....but they are still expecting more rain. As for my grandma's basement, all the important stuff (Furnace, and such) is up off the ground since they do get the occasional bit of water down there. They live right down in a valley...only this time the water was higher and the water got to I think the furnace, so that's all my grandma is worried about. Otherwise she doesn't keep much in the basement, maybe some junk. But as far as the house goes, that's in pretty good shape. They did get a sump pump going for the basement tho. Her road/driveway is another story. I'll add some pics.
As for my aunts house, she was able to get all the horses and cattle across the highway into a higher pasture on the hillside....so all of those ones are fine, they just have to make friends with the other horses since they're in a pasture together (It's about 75 acres, so they're not exactly crowded)
For my great aunts wake, it's still a go. They may just have to move where the lunch will be served....but that's no biggie. We have family coming from both coasts, so it's hard to cancel.
This is a building and park next to the Kickapoo river
Along side the road on the way to my Aunts house. Notice where the tops of the trees are, and you can see the water is moving pretty good if you look at the telephone pole
This is what's left of the road to my Grandma's house, this is about where the road begins, and goes back about 1/2 mile past where the people are standing.
Close up of all the layers it went through.
This is the house, if you look at the bottom of the picture you can see where the water literally cut through the yard. There was a small ditch to start with....but it got bigger.
You can see again where the water cut through, and then just the bit of water left on the lawn. That field is/was a tobacco field.
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tinkinpink84
Especially eHealthy
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tigresacanela24
Especially eHealthy
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Aryeani
Experienced User
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terpamber
Experienced User
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