The rain that started sometime in the early morning hours on Saturday and came down up until around noon on Saturday seemed to tip the scales. As we watched the rain come down from our house, I was surprised to see the street flooding outside...
Once the rain stopped and the sun came out, we decided to get out for a walk since we had been cooped up inside all morning. We were surprised to find more flooding when we left the subdivision...
Still not realizing how bad things really were, I decided to go to Lowe's to buy a new grill. It took me over an hour to get up to Lowe's at Madison and County Line Road. There were many intersections that were closed or impassable. It was while I was driving tht I first started hearing on the radio how bad things really were, and about the state of emergency that had been declared.
Our church was cancelled this morning, partly because of the flooding and partly because they just put another coat of varnish on the new hardwood gym floor...but mainly because of the flooding. The Bishop tried yesterday for an hour and half to get to the church and couldn't make it.
Around noon today, I got a phone call that one of our ward member's homes had flooded (she's on vacation) and they were looking for wet vacs to help clean it up. I loaded up and went over there to find an unbelieveable mess in this community. It is a community of duplexes, sort of like those 55 and over communities, but we did see some younger people living there. Water had been inside many of the homes. When I arrived they had just finished pulling the carpet up out of the neighbor's house and were just getting ready to pull it up in the home I went to help with. We ended up helping a number of other residents in the neighborhood. There was mud EVERYWHERE. One house in particular had laminate floors and the mud was very thick. Yuck!
If you'd like to see the rest of the pictures from the flood click here to see the rest of the album.
