Thursday, September 8, 2011

We're Flooding!! :(

It has been raining since Monday afternoon. The sun came out for 5 minutes today, then left and it started storming AGAIN!!!

We might need to use Rod's boat!!!
Aparently, I need to buy everyone new rain jackets!! Yes. He IS wearing a plastic bag over his head! (He cut it open a little at least)



Sorry for the raindrops in the pictures. But, well, it was raining!!!! :) This is our nice new pool. Not exactly where I would have placed it if I had the choice.


Dippy climbed up the fence like a monkey to check on the little creek behind our house. LITTLE creek. Well.........it's not so little tonight!!


This may be part of it.....inside our yard!!


This is the front yard pool.




We drove down to the elementary school which is behind our house and on the other side of the little creek. Normally, you can't really see the creek from here when the trees are still green. You can see it tonight!



Another view of the little creek. I don't have any non flooded pictures of the creek to share so you could compare. Let's just say, I have jumped over it before in summertime! No. I didn't try to do that tonight.

This is about directly behind our house.



We went out driving for just a little bit. Roads are closing all over the place. Dingy needed candy for a class tomorrow, so we stopped at a Wawa. Part of their parking lot was closed due to flooding. When Rod came out, he said we needed to leave fast. They were getting ready to close the road in front of the store and probably the store, too. The local newspaper has a facebook account and the last thing they posted said that it would be easier to list the streets that ARE still open tonight! At this point, I'm wondering if there will be school tomorrow. One elementary school is already flooded and one high school was close to being flooded. And the rain is STILL coming!!


Just a small bit up the road from the Wawa we stopped at was this 7-11. I know the picture isn't great, but you might be able to make out the water level on the car. This 7-11 was being forced to close tonight.



This is a tad bit better of a picture. The water is up to the guy's door.



We made it back home safe and sound. Not completly dry, but dry enough. I think we'll stay inside for the rest of the night now! I'm also thinking that Goofy might NOT get to start soccer this weekend. He's supposed to have a practice on Saturday and his first game on Sunday. I can't imagine that they'll allow us onto the soccer fields, though.

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