It's been oh so much fun around here.  Flooding rains, hail, sleet, snow. Yaaay .   Today we are going into our own flood zone.  Himself went down Tuesday to clear out everything. The camper came home and is currently in the front. I will be taking pics and bringing it to the police dept for proof here is the only place we have to put it until we can get back in.  I started looking and doing what I do when I heard of the storms coming. Some at our place didnt,,,they lost.  Either they, what we call rolled the dice or in some cases  couldn't get their stuff out.  All over the entire Chicago area is massive flooding.  In (sp) Marsalles, Il they have 9 barges that broke lose and slinked up against the dam there, some have sunk,others float, meanwhile to relieve the pressure they open it and flooded out 1500 homes. I-80, RT55,53 and other main roads shut down from water,massive waters.   In my little section of the world,,,at the river,,, it took less then a day for the water to flush up to bout 10' high over the land. and pretty much cover a good 90% of us. Downriver the homes along the river are yesterday able to get in, today they will begin scraping mud and whatever else... today we are going down to see just how much we have to do.  Granted it did not get into our cabin.... and only 5 campers were destroyed or taken.
Hopefully I can load up some pics,,,,,
I'll let ya know.

thats my cabin,,, remember its 14' in the air

that mess all hung up is actually 2 campers,,, all I can say is dam lucky they arent flush up against us

here is a shot from our friends place looking thru our place... the low road so to speak

this is actually the beginning of our lovely, It is the landing where the creek meets the river the brown building is the office, well was....

Elfie that really sucks   I really had no idea this was even going on.  I am so sorry.

who took this,,,I dont know, but its from the creek , to the left of the tree line in the water is our road.....so it was wednesday,,yesterday is was good to go in.

from the high road

the high road,,,, it was like this pretty much all the way...

We will be leaving soon to see just what the heck..  I all ready know its not going to be good.  I've seen pics,, today we go in... I will post more of what, what is, after the water left as soon as I can....
Sorry I did it this way and if the pics are to big, let me know....
Other then that,,,hey its been GREAT!

Quote from: Elfie on April 21, 2013, 06:39:22 AM
We will be leaving soon to see just what the heck..  I all ready know its not going to be good.  I've seen pics,, today we go in... I will post more of what, what is, after the water left as soon as I can....
Sorry I did it this way and if the pics are to big, let me know....
Other then that,,,hey its been GREAT!

Wow! MeLady talk about waterfront property.  Sorry, I hope the pontoon boat is ok also.

Quote from: Elfie on April 21, 2013, 06:21:34 AM

thats my cabin,,, remember its 14' in the air

Looks like your staircase has moved to a new locations.

Quote from: walkstall on April 21, 2013, 07:10:24 AM
Wow! MeLady talk about waterfront property.  Sorry, I hope the pontoon boat is ok also.

Thats the only saving grace,,, all that is up on the highest ground... no one had their water fun stuff in... now if it was oh May,,, naaah I dont wanna think of that.

Update,,,, we have been alittle busy with flood stuff and can only get to our place on the weekends. We surely did luck out thats for sure.  Granted the driveway was washed out and made a lovely sand/gravel bar on our neighbor to the rights spot,,, the downstairs fridge we use for bait and beer ended up at the base of the stairs between the handrails. Lost the cabinets downstairs,thats why the fridge floated, the tv that was downstairs left also.  We have to redo all the pavers under the cabin, thats not going to be fun as we have a 3' pile of sand and gravel where they used to be,,,the flagstone got wrecked,,it went from the drive to the firepit and around that.  We have 4 skids of new flagstone to replace the ones that washed away. Meanwhile we have lovely veins of sand or a mix going thru the lawn... that all has to be gone so the grass can come back up.  The worst part is going to be redoing the pavers,,, once that is done the flagstone will be a cake walk, all in all I am thinking about 2 months max weekends only, well unless we can toss a crew day down there for fill time.  Then again we are gettin busy so who's to say.
Meanwhile,, its party flier time and those start the 22 of June.  HImself b-day is Mothers Day, so we will only have Saturday to do more work on the pavers ,lol... I'll clean and disinfect the downstairs bathroom again(3rd time) while he is laying the pavers then I'll start filling them with sand,thats my job, well and scrapin mud off the old ones,lol...
Throw in a couple of nasty dental procedures and  the non stop of everyday and well I've just been a wee bit overwhelmed......
and its raining again......