Pictures Of The Flood

[calliopes_pen]

First, here is a picture of the back yard. Just beyond the fence you can see that a small dirt path has turned into a river.



During everything, the garage leaked and started to flood. Here, you can see it seaping under the garage doors. Look under the old chair and you can see that it spread passed there. It made it all the way to the other side of the garage—about 12 feet for the length, I believe.

Just so you know, that chair was ruined before the water hit it--it collapsed after 25 years of people sitting in it.



Here is the front yard. Look at the ditches—they are flooded from the thunderstorms and tornadoes, too, and spreading across the road. Oh, and the yard turned into a lake after the first day.



Pointed in the direction of the other half of the front yard, I think.



Another angle, this time from a couple feet closer to the yard.



Look closely, and you can see that the water is going up and into the garage on the far side. By the end of the week of rain it was over those cement blocks next to the porch.



About a week later, after everything is back to normal. The sun dried everything up within the week. Toby and my cat are playing together.



And Toby getting his neck rubbed through the fence. I’m the one doing that, if anyone wonders.

Comments

[stretfordditto.livejournal.com]

Excellent pix. Glad everything seems back to normal now. The dog is so cute! :)

[calliopes_pen]

That's the neighbor's dog--he seems to get more attention from Mom and me, since we check on him and talk to him every few hours.

Once a week we give him leftovers from the crock pot (potatoes and carrots)--he's spoiled rotten, since his owners apparently also feed him bacon, eggs, ham and biscuits.

[sasha-anu.livejournal.com]

That dog is too cute.

And it's good to see that things are going back to normal.