Flooding of the Mississippi

Being here during the flooding of the Mississippi River has been an interesting experience. We usually hear about it in passing on the news but when you are here it is all you hear about. It has been crazy driving around town and seeing the streets flooded. Luckily our house has not been flooded but a couple of people in the ward/neighborhood have had their basements flooded. It makes me thankful for a built-in sump pump and an unfinished basement. We have had enough personal troubles with flooding.  

It rained all last week. I know that we broke some records but I can’t find them online. In one day it rained continuously throughout the whole day – nonstop. The thundering and lightning here is also something I have never encountered. The sound of the thunder is so loud since there are no mountains and not many trees to break the sound. It scares me sometimes. It has also scared Lilly and Herbert on occasion although we haven’t had any problems with it waking either of them up at night, luckily.

 

This is a little hard to see but those are houses across the river. They are now in the river.

 

There are whole neighborhoods that look like this

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