Tag: flood
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June 26, 2008 11:48 AM EDT --
Rain is natural. Snow melt is natural. And sometimes it's natural for both to happen at the same time. Flooding is natural. Especially, and to no surprise, along a big river . . .
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December 12, 2008 07:46 AM EST --
Well we have had over 24 hours of rain here in Connecticut and our yard is over half way covered with water. It is supposed to stop this morning. I hope so! Inside our house is dry except where the sub . . .
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October 04, 2009 11:08 PM EDT --
It's just pouring again....and a lot of us are worried. We are back under a flood watch, since 4 inches of rain is predicted. We DON'T NEED this rain, and now a few roads are being closed off "just in . . .
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November 24, 2008 12:47 PM EST --
Look what we had the pleasure of waking up to in the basement of our rental... It rained most of the night and thank goodness our neighbors warned us about the leaky basement as we were moving it. Apparently . . .
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March 11, 2009 03:09 PM EDT --
I hope so , anyway. It depends on how many people are down there cheching out the flood. So happy I have my new camera.
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June 26, 2008 09:55 AM EDT --
Last night my area had 1.7 inches of rain in a short time, about 2 hours. I haven't seen so much lightening or heard so much thunder in ages. Of course with rivers and creeks already above . . .
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June 18, 2008 11:48 AM EDT --
My brother-in-law, Roy C . and I took some pictures of the flooded Mississippi River yesterday. I meant to write this yesterday, but I was just too tired.
Hannibal, MO:
There are . . .
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March 23, 2009 09:13 PM EDT --
These are some pictures of my grandmother's house from the flood of June 17, 2008. The levee to the Mississippi river broke and flooded 28,000 acres of our county including the family farm. . . .
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October 02, 2007 01:26 PM EDT --
A couple of months ago, we had some very hard rains in the region. Thanks to our landlord’s laissez-faire approach to building maintenance, our basement flooded. Well, flood is a rather . . .
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June 07, 2008 01:57 PM EDT --
Seven years plus of drought. Drought disaster designations for most of the state. Low reservoirs, closed marinas. GF&P unable to release trout into the streams and lakes due to low water levels. Ranchers . . .
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March 09, 2009 07:10 PM EDT --
It is already near record levels. We ussually have these floods every 100 years, but so far I have lived through 3!
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March 10, 2009 06:47 AM EDT --
I am listening to the news now. The flooding is getting really bad north of us. About 20 miles upriver, they have already left thier homes. They are showing footage on TV that looks as bad . . .
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September 21, 2009 11:01 PM EDT --
I lost the first post completely....and I don't have a lot of time to write....
We are okay and in a hotel right now. The road in and out of our subdivision has washed away....and there are trees down . . .
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September 22, 2009 02:07 PM EDT --
Looking at these photos, I realize how lucky we are. Some of these photos are not 5 miles away from us, here in Marietta. We're only lucky we weren't closer to a creek.The sun is out, and . . .
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September 23, 2009 12:46 AM EDT --
Well, right now we are home. Mike, the kids, and I hiked in earlier today, via a little handmade bridge. I wish I could say it was easy, but it wasn't. I was being so careful and slow crossing the footbridge, . . .
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September 23, 2009 03:43 PM EDT --
Ah, it was a long, long night here. The work crews were going non-stop for 30 hours and finally took a couple hour break at 3 am. I do feel bad for the workers, since some of them haven't been home since . . .
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June 15, 2008 01:44 PM EDT --
More flooding, this time in China.
It's tough to get my understanding around the idea of a million people running for higher ground. A million people leaving the lives that they formerly . . .
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June 24, 2008 01:41 PM EDT --
I have noticed on myflood walks that both hope and humor are alive and well. It makes me feel good to know of the community support for those who have flood damage. The fact that business . . .
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July 16, 2008 06:25 PM EDT --
With the recent Midwest floods that hit particularly hard in my area of Iowa we tend to concentrate on people and businesses displaced by flood waters, but there are other displacements too. In recent . . .
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June 15, 2008 10:49 PM EDT --
This is what the view from Lover's Leap in Hannibal, MO was in November of 2007:
This is what the view was yesterday:
This is what the view was this evening:
This is . . .
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