Saturday, January 30, 2016

Floods all over

The day after Christmas we got a backup again in our basement. I had a pump running on and off for three days, it kept coming in. We didn't get much sleep for three days.
Because of the pump we only lost the basement carpet, vanity, sheet vinyl and one small section of drywall. We kept the pump going plus Craig came and helped us move things and put things up on wood, etc. 











In three days we had 9.4" of rain. The most ever for this area.

I-44 was closed at Hwy 141, 141 was closed, and eventually I-55 was closed. Fenton was marooned, nobody could get out.






I wanted to check on our camper at the storage lot but the roads to get to it were closed. 

When the water dropped a little we got to our camper. They had moved every camper from ours down. The water got up to our tires but stopped there.


We also drove over to our favorite campground, Dam West at Carlyle Lake. Totally flooded, we hope it goes away by April.




Since we were there we decided to go to the Fish house to eat.







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