This picture was on the homepage of the Des Moines Register for awhile this morning. We're here for a conference my husband is attending. The text below was a hotlink to the article on the site. Heavy rains caused flash flooding, which in turn caused a storm drain to collapse. My car has been towed, and will likely be totalled. The water was up over the hood at one point.
D.M. swamped after a.m. downpour
• Power is out for many in Des Moines and streets are swamped with this morning's sudden rainfall. Morning traffic was locked up on a number of metro-area arteries. Part of an Urbandale parking lot is now a sinkhole after a storm sewer collapsed.
And how's your day going?
Knitting content (!):
I started the Mr Greenjeans sweater on the trip up here (about 8 hours in the car), and it's about 1/4 done. Or, I'm about done with the 1st of 4 balls of yarn. I hope I'm at least 1/4 done! As usual, I have left home without the thing that lets the computer read the camera card, so the pics are stuck in the camera for now.
3 comments:
Oh, Julie!! I'm so very sorry about your car. Iowa and northern Illinois have been hammered in the past three weeks. I'm sorry you got caught in it.
I hope things are back to normal by now...strength and courage! May God bless you and family!
blessings
Fr.Vincent
YIKES! Water, water everywhere! Hmmm.... I can't quite compare to your damages, but we have had our share of plumbing problems here in Ohio. Have to replace the flooring and 3 walls in two bathroom due to a long time problem we didn't know existed so we have black mold and water damage to our house:( It seems that the water pressure had been set too high to be blowing out the waterlines. I wished it was our car that was damaged instead of the house in shambles. LOL Hope that all gets back to normal for you and that you are riding in a nice shiney new car:)
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