June 13th, 2008 - Rain, rain, go away
We got 4.88 inches of rain last weekend. It was wet and some places flooded but okay here.
We got over 5 inches of rain yesterday evening. It wasn’t okay anywhere in Oshkosh: they even evacuated some folks via boats. Lovely city here, but it’s between two lakes and the interconnecting river. That spells problems every time we get a heavy rain. Our basement had a small stream running through it (I could even see where a tiny spring was bubbling up). The back yard was mostly under water. The garage probably flooded, but we didn’t check it last night. Unfortunately, we still had some boxes of stuff from cleaning out the car a week ago. Hopefully, nothing important was in them. I’m pretty sure the atlas is back in the car already. A lot of the spruce tree needles are no longer under it but on the concrete in front of the garage. That’s pretty weird looking.
My garden was flooded. Mostly the paths on the west side, but a few beds were under water. I’m hoping the dill and carrots Mom planted Tuesday survived (they weren’t underwater).
The street was flooded up to or over the curb. Many people drove through the street, which surprised us. Until I read the online paper and discovered that most of the city streets were flooded. One crazy lady decided to drive on our grass to avoid the water. It doesn’t look too bad this morning; thank goodness she had a smaller car and not a heavy pickup.
BTW, my parents are visiting this week and I’m mostly on vacation from work. Hence the lack of posts. We had plans to go to Portage in the middle/west of the state today. Given that they had roads closed yesterday due to previous rains, we figured last night’s storm would make things even worse. Not to mention that many roads between here and there are probably flooded. (The river that runs through Oshkosh runs over to Portage and we’d be crossing it many times. Except that it’s flooded everywhere.)
I hope our farmers are okay, especially our CSA farmer. (I got to meet her last week at the farmer’s market, so I feel even more connected to her farm now.)
Hope you are all staying mostly dry!