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We have this tiny creek that runs out by us. It is about a quarter mile from our house. Normaly when we look out back all we see is the cow pasture. Not today there is a river running through it. It has poured all night long here. I was drinking my coffee looking out the window trying to figue out what was out there. Then it hit me that is flooding.

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Dang Miss, the last post I read of yours was depressing. Maybe you should move.

Had some minor flooding a few weeks ago but it's been relatively good.

Still had some exceptional rainfalls, but that's expected when you're living in the second wettest part of the world.

Soon ... soon we'll be first when we're rid of that pesky Amazon Rainforest!

We had some flooding here in Youngstown Ohio but we always do this time of year and will probably cont. on and off for a while. We live in one of the most overcast areas in the U.S. not to mention one of the most dangerous cities! But you gotta love it!

Missourisnowflakes wrote:We have this tiny creek that runs out by us. It is about a quarter mile from our house. Normaly when we look out back all we see is the cow pasture. Not today there is a river running through it. It has poured all night long here. I was drinking my coffee looking out the window trying to figue out what was out there. Then it hit me that is flooding.

YES!!! We are taking on water BIG TIME around here! Not my house, since I live on a bluff, but a lot of the low-lying areas around me are going under quite quickly. Between the snow melt-off and the unending rain, it's time to build an ark! Thankfully, the Army Corp of Engineers are saying to not panic...not the re-run of The Great Flood of 1993....I am glad! That was the WORST spring, summer and fall I can remember!

It's been rain, rain, rain the whole day through in the American Midwest.

I honestly like rain when there's no power outages or tornadoes or anything. But yeah, It's coming down hard around me, it got us out of school

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Missourisnowflakes wrote:We have this tiny creek that runs out by us. It is about a quarter mile from our house. Normaly when we look out back all we see is the cow pasture. Not today there is a river running through it. It has poured all night long here. I was drinking my coffee looking out the window trying to figue out what was out there. Then it hit me that is flooding.

YES!!! We are taking on water BIG TIME around here! Not my house, since I live on a bluff, but a lot of the low-lying areas around me are going under quite quickly. Between the snow melt-off and the unending rain, it's time to build an ark! Thankfully, the Army Corp of Engineers are saying to not panic...not the re-run of The Great Flood of 1993....I am glad! That was the WORST spring, summer and fall I can remember!

They are saying that the last time the rivers crested this high was in 1993. Some are reporting 11 inches of rain. I had waterfront property for a little while I was safe though since we are on higher ground and the flooding never left the flood plain.

We aren't getting much flooding, but our water is messed up.

If you drink it straight from the tap...let's say you'll be entertaining the toiler one way or another...

Nope it's wet here in Chicago but nowwhere near as bad as it is there. Keep safe I heard sevral people drowned. So how much rain did u guys get?

Mr.Bond007 wrote:Nope it's wet here in Chicago but nowwhere near as bad as it is there. Keep safe I heard sevral people drowned. So how much rain did u guys get?

Not sure the Details, but it must be a substantial amount. I heard 5 or so people died in Kentucky...so there's gotta be plenty of it.

It went through Georgia here pretty quickly. It soaked us for about an hour and then moved on. Unluckily, I have a job that requires me to be outside, so that sucked.

They are reporting 12-15 inches of rain. They are saying it has not been this bad since 1993. We are not in a flood prone area so we just said WOW every time we saw the water over the roads in the low water crossings.

Some people took pictures and posted them on the u news section of the nbc website

http://www.ky3.com/younews

we haven't had much rain here but my heart goes out to you that having the floods ..I hope everyone stays safe.

The road-closures and general mandatory evacuations began today. I live on the Meramec River valley, and that is the river doing the most flooding right now. I live on a river bluff, looking down on the neighborhoods below. The trailer park in the front of my neighborhood is currently being pulled up and moved by the Army Corps of Engineers and the houses in back have been slowly being swallowed all day. They slammed shut the 500-year floodgates yesterday, and the river is not supposed to crest til tomorrow evening or Saturday morning...at almost the level of The Great Flood, which was totally unexpected! I drove past the levee system on my home from work, and there were well over 300 people standing on the top of the levee, watching the water rise. Thank the gods that they shored up all the floodwalls and levees in 1994 to accomodate the 1500-year flood levels (which are OBSCENELY high!)...or many other towns and neighborhoods would be shuttering up and rolling for higher ground! Gotta love springtime in the Midwestern US!! Between the melting snow from here and from above and the torrential rains that ALWAYS come with spring, we take on water in odd places, and none are good places either!

What I remember most about the flood of '93: the smell.

Thank goodness we lived on a hill.

In Jersey we have alot of rivers and the meadowlands, so there is alot of flooding. Outside of the forested areas though we're pretty well irigated so nothing is usualy a problem for more than a day or so.

I remember last April though a large area between the edge of Totowa and Parsippany(about a 10 mile strech) was completely underwater.

Pyrostrata wrote:The road-closures and general mandatory evacuations began today. I live on the Meramec River valley, and that is the river doing the most flooding right now. I live on a river bluff, looking down on the neighborhoods below. The trailer park in the front of my neighborhood is currently being pulled up and moved by the Army Corps of Engineers and the houses in back have been slowly being swallowed all day. They slammed shut the 500-year floodgates yesterday, and the river is not supposed to crest til tomorrow evening or Saturday morning...at almost the level of The Great Flood, which was totally unexpected! I drove past the levee system on my home from work, and there were well over 300 people standing on the top of the levee, watching the water rise. Thank the gods that they shored up all the floodwalls and levees in 1994 to accomodate the 1500-year flood levels (which are OBSCENELY high!)...or many other towns and neighborhoods would be shuttering up and rolling for higher ground! Gotta love springtime in the Midwestern US!! Between the melting snow from here and from above and the torrential rains that ALWAYS come with spring, we take on water in odd places, and none are good places either!

Jack is out by you in a town near Washington, Mo. He said that it is flooded pretty bad. All the plans his girlfriends family had with him have been scrubbed and they pretty much did nothing. Well he says they did make it to Wal Mart. We were not near that bad here but of course we do not have the Mississippi river either.

Unfortunately, yeah, there has been a major increase in flood.

A gravemind moved in at the end of our street, and now the neighborhood has gone to hell in a handbasket.

Our neighbors now all just ramble around doing impossible jumps and infecting other neighbors, and now they all share a consciousness.

We invited them over for dinner one night, and well all the flood did was smash our table saying he didn't like the squash we made, and how we should become apart of the flood, and that the flood is peace. So I had to kill the ones that visited and burn their bodies.

It's been a real hassle, property values have dropped like a rock, my van had to be refitted with a turret on the top and a cow catcher on front. We had to fortify our house, added some gun emplacements on the corners of the roof along with a sniper perch, barred up the windows, reinforced the doors with heavy titanium alloy.

And now to top it all off, the flood hit us with a discrimination lawsuit, saying we don't treat them fairly and all we want to do is "eliminate the infection before it spreads and devours the earth."

Stupid flood.

Senor Hugo wrote:Unfortunately, yeah, there has been a major increase in flood.

A gravemind moved in at the end of our street, and now the neighborhood has gone to hell in a handbasket.

Our neighbors now all just ramble around doing impossible jumps and infecting other neighbors, and now they all share a consciousness.

We invited them over for dinner one night, and well all the flood did was smash our table saying he didn't like the squash we made, and how we should become apart of the flood, and that the flood is peace. So I had to kill the ones that visited and burn their bodies.

It's been a real hassle, property values have dropped like a rock, my van had to be refitted with a turret on the top and a cow catcher on front. We had to fortify our house, added some gun emplacements on the corners of the roof along with a sniper perch, barred up the windows, reinforced the doors with heavy titanium alloy.

And now to top it all off, the flood hit us with a discrimination lawsuit, saying we don't treat them fairly and all we want to do is "eliminate the infection before it spreads and devours the earth."

Stupid flood.

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There's no flooding here, but it is snowing like all hell.

Rain, Flooding! What be those things?!?!

Summer going Autumn here, pretty dry here at the moment, but it can get really wet during winter, doesn't snow much in the north Island (except the mountains), but it does rain pretty well.

We're lucky with where we live, we're on a hill so we don't normally get flooding, but the park and walking tracks round us do get sloppy and bog-like.