The first couple of pictures were taken yesterday. You can see the same area today (with the big yellow arrow) has been flooded with water, and the road closed off. From what I heard, this isn't even the worst of it. Those houses under water are less than 1/2 a mile from my house. The Department of Water said they might shut the water off in the city today, and they said to be careful of possible sewerage leaking into the water supply. It's amazing how much is out of our control when it comes to Mother Nature.
Check out these pictures too.
Keep us Hoosiers posted. I have a friend that has a place about 1 or more hours east of you. Prayers sent.
For the 7 years I’ve been in Lowell, nothing like that has really happened. Its incredible, im a non-credible sense =/. Does the weatherman explain the phenomenon or just report the whole week as rain rain rain? Horrible that Keo just laughs at this too after I saw the photos of people’s houses submerged and lost. I’ll be praying too.
For the most part, the meteorologists don’t know what’s causing all the rain. The rain is normal, but the length of time it’s stayed in this area isn’t normal.
This post on a blog at accuweather.com explains a lot.
Hey brother, just wanted to give my best wishes. Please stay safe and if anything is needed, ANYTHING AT ALL, you know where to find us.
Best of luck…
I’ve never seen anything like this first hand, nor do I want to. The wife on the other hand told me of a time in Vietnam where she lived on a roof of a house for a week and ate dried noodles. Before things get that bad – like Vas said, you know where to find us.
You are more than welcome at our place… if only we had a place.
Seems like there as been lots more flooding these past few years… or I’m just more aware of it since having friends outside of Indiana.
Thanks Vas and DJT.
I believe flooding and major storms are going to become more and more of a common occurrence. Global warming is showing its effects a lot faster than most people predicted. Last year (2005) saw the highest temperatures and highest number of major hurricanes in recorded history. A few days before 2005 (in December 2004) we saw the horrific effects of the tsunami that claimed more than 250,000 lives, the highest in recorded history.
well… above I said I’ve never seen anything like this before… and now it’s 2009 and I drove around our town to take a look at the high waters.
http://dajatuphoto.com/gallery/7575495_DmubU#489665764_Di3uR
Wow, that looks pretty bad. Did your house get hit at all?? It’s weird how your town doesn’t look much different from a small town around here, heh.
Nah… my place wasn’t hit. About everything within 2 blocks of Cedar Creek is under, I’m about 3/4 mile away. I have a few more pics to take today, it was getting too dark last night. The building with the trucks on the platforms is a museum. The lower half is winter car storage. This winter I chose to keep the 66 Galaxie in my garage and I’m glad I decided to do that now.
LOL – now it’s snowing outside. crazy weather….