2009 flood cont...

Matthew went out and took pictures last night of the second bridge in town. The first bridge on the North side of town went under yesterday afternoon. This is looking West out of town.


The view of town from the above bridge. We are 2 houses down from the church on the left in this picture. Looking East.


Looking Northwest.


This picture may not be that significant to you, but we know that the water should never be this high. Looking East.


The first bridge to go under yesterday. The water tower would be on the top right of this picture...just to give you a little bit of perspective. Looking South.

This was taken this morning at about 9. I was standing in the yard of the farm. The water has quite a bit to go until it reaches the dike. This evening when I last checked, we were at 29 feet and it is supposed to get to 35. We might be just fine...

Looking Northwest from the yard of the farm.

The house...hopefully it will look exactly the same when this is all over and done with.

Just in case...

Then the water went over the road. It took half the day to get too high to go through, but this afternoon at about 12:30 the road crews went to put the "Road Closed" signs up. Guess who didn't obey the road signs. Matthew went to park our car across the railroad tracks so we didn't get stuck in town. He was SUPPOSED to go the long way around, but no, he went right through the water. He made it okay, but said it was scary. We now get to walk across the railroad tracks tomorrow morning to get to church...that should be interesting. Here's my question. Isn't it easier to drive the long way around rather than driving to the railroad tracks, parking the car, getting out of the car, walking across a railroad bridge over high water with a 1-1/2 year old? Oh yeah, it will be about 10 to 12 degrees when we do this! Matthew thinks I'm making a bigger deal out of it than it is...someone please explain this to me!

The water going over the road.

I thought it would be neat to drive up to the farm now the way that we have to go and show you that perspective. On the right side is another pasture that the cattle use...also usually very deep.

Just a different view from the driveway of the farm. Finn had a lot of fun just walking on the road and getting exercise.

Finn and I walking down to the water.