Water! Water! Everywhere!

[Cheyanne]

Cobalt and I went for a drive this afternoon. Wanted to see more of what Mother Nature dumped on us...

The pic here is of a farm field near our acreage....

[Cheyanne]

The wind was picking up and causing waves to lap the edge of the field...

[Cheyanne]

The road is completely underwater...farm field next to it.

[Lilith]

Yuck what a mess...not to mention the $$ someone has lost.

[Cheyanne]

The Iowa River runs through our town...now it is running all over town... :(

[Cheyanne]

Our school district has an outdoor classroom. The land was donated and the committee just got done putting in a lot of new trees, a pond (stocked) and a parking area....

[Cheyanne]

No driveway to this house - or at least you can't see it at the moment....

[Cheyanne]

Yeah, Lil....it is a mess! A lot of farmers are going to be replanting, not to mention the insurance claims!

[imaginewithme]

scary stuff....hope everyone is okay.

[Cheyanne]

People are sandbagging....the river is expected to rise some more tonight.

[Cheyanne]

We drove around a baracade to get this picture. I didn't get out of the car, but it looks as if the river is going to spill over the edge of the bridge and onto the road...

[Cheyanne]

The campground is submerged...

[Cheyanne]

By the looks of the sky, we are going to get more rain. In fact, the weather dude is predicting another round of storms for tonight (not severe in our area) and possibly severe storms tomorrow night throug Tuesday...

[osuche]

(((Hugs))) ~ Hope you stay safe and warm....and DRY!

[jseal]

Gentlefolk,

Take care and Good Luck!

[Cheyanne]

This link http://stormdisplay.weatherbug.com/warnings.asp?state_abr= will give anyone who is curious current weather conditions in any part of the United States. Just click on the area of interest and the watches, warnings, forcast for that area will be displayed.

[cbass1976]

how much rain did you get?

[Sharni]

Too much i'd say

Mother nature is a funny thing eh....your getting floods and parts of Oz are in severe drought

[PantyFanatic]

Something as basic as atmospheric conditions can be very humbling to a species who’s ego often exceeds his capabilities. lmao

Thanks for the photo updates Chy & Cobalt. It will be very interesting if you can go back to the same specific locations and take pictures of each scene later this summer for us. :D

[Cheyanne]

Originally posted by cbass1976
how much rain did you get?

We received 4.65 inches of rain. Further north of us received 6.41 inches. Doesn't seem like a lot, but when you add that much rain in so little time to already saturated ground, you end up with flooding. We are downstream from some of the heaviest areas and like shit :eek: it all flows downhill..

[Cheyanne]

Originally posted by PantyFanatic
Something as basic as atmospheric conditions can be very humbling to a species who’s ego often exceeds his capabilities. lmao

Thanks for the photo updates Chy & Cobalt. It will be very interesting if you can go back to the same specific locations and take pictures of each scene later this summer for us. :D

That is a good idea! I know that the Outdoor Classroom Committee is going to be hard at work once the water goes away.

[maddy]

WOW! Stay safe, flowing water is no fun to contend with. I hear you on insurance claims, I used to live in the Midwest and work for an insurance company, we all braced ourselves everytime there was any sort of storm. Unfortunately mother nature can do some pretty powerful damage when she isn't in her full glory.

[nikki1979]

stay safe!!!! hope it all drys up soon for yall

nikki

[musketeer]

Hope you get a change in the weather soon.