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15 years ago

What a mess our little town is having! North of us, they have had ALOT of rain...and more to come. It is still coming up now. We went out and took pics (with zillion others! LOL). They are sandbagging the carousel right now.

This was taken in 2003 for the first gathering here. (I will look back on old disks to see if I can find a better perspective pic)

This is today. (We were sitting where the people are standing in this pic) It is hard to get the perspective, but it is HIGH! The whole park is under water, the road coming into town is under water. That fence with the red across the top of 4.5 ft. Caryn just came by and said that they were sandbagging the Carousel.

This is looking at the Carousel from our neighborhood. There should be NO water in any of this area.

This is rushing over the main road and they are figuring that the water will reach the top of the bridge soon.

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monica_pa Grieves
15 years ago
OMG...I'll be praying that you and your houses are safe from the water.
I remember Caryn standing at the bottom of the hill to take that picture.
iowagirl2006
15 years ago
Oh Sandy - what a mess. We have had so much rain out West. I can see the Raccoon from my house (and I shouldn't be able too!) I have spend the day pumping my basement out - what a mess. The ground is completely saturated here. Whatever rains here goes right to Des Moines in a couple days. We had heavy rains last night.

They said the water was going over the spillway at Saylorville - first time since '93. The rain we had last night wouldn't even be to Des Moines yet.

I heard they had big rains up towards Humboldt - does that flow down to you?

I know Ft. Dodge had a mess last night - blew the manhole covers right off it was so much. I think that flows to Des Moines though.

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Kathsgrdn
15 years ago
Hopefully it will stop before it does a lot of damage. Hope your house isn't in danger.
lydia1959
15 years ago
Sending good thoughts for your little town that it will not suffer much damage.
nola_in_aus
15 years ago
Gee (((Sandy))) are you and the family okay,how far from
your house are the flood waters?????
sandy_in_ia
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15 years ago
Yes, we are high and dry. It would take a LOT of water to get up to us.....by then, I think most of the town would be gone! The flood waters aren't really that far away, but they would have to come up a large hill before they would get to us!

We can see the Skunk River from our house too, we shouldn't be able to either!....thankfully it is down the hill!

A lot of mess....but it is better than tornadoes!
hayjud_mn
15 years ago
Sandy
Those pictures are shocking! Where we were on that hill for the group picture, our feet would be in the water.

I'm glad to hear you are up-hill from the worst. I couldn't remember the hill. The bridge looked familiar.

Thank you for braving it and going out to take the pictures. I hope the rain stops soon.
liz
15 years ago
WHOA!! I hope it recedes fast before so many things are destroyed...Could you send us about a gazillion barrels of it?
glenda_al
15 years ago
How sad!
nodakgal
15 years ago
Oh shoot Sandy! Thats too bad. I sent your pics to DD that lived in Ames, I don't know if she remembers any of this tho...she said she was reading the paper the other day and saw the rainfall amounts, saw 3.5 inches for Des Moines and thought it was a typo!
I hope it lets up and the sun comes out SOON!
patti43
15 years ago
Stay safe, Sandy!
monica_pa Grieves
15 years ago
Remember the guys carrying YA_YA up the hill to the carousel ?
linda_in_iowa
15 years ago
Oh great! My washer and dryer are in my basement! I hope the sump pump is working well. I am in the SF Bay Area and it is in the 80s with no humidity. I am going to spend the day lounging around the pool.
bulldinkie
15 years ago
My husband was planning on comming to the power wagon rally in Fairfield Iowa.Can you tell me anything?????Flooding,canceled???
summer_tx
15 years ago
Oh my Sandy, that's just toooo much water.
sandy_in_ia
Original Author
15 years ago
No clue on Fairfield....that is a long way from here.

Water has gone down...considerably! It is so different than when we get RAIN to get flooding, but this was all coming from the rains they had up north of us. Waters came up sooooooooo fast, it was really scary!!! There is a river that runs through a majority of the east side of town. Our house sits on some of the highest land in town, so we never had any worries about our house.

When everything gets dried up, I will take some pics of 'what was' so you can see the difference.
deamn
15 years ago
Sandy, is any of that water from the Des Moines River? That runs through our town and it has spilled a little bit out of it's banks here, but not 'flood potential'. We left for TX on Thurs. so we weren't around to see where this was headed but read that we had 4.3 inches of rain here so just was wondering if any of that had gravitated to you.

Glad to read that the water is receding.
Terri_PacNW
15 years ago
WOW!... That's alot of water to see in places it shouldn't be!

I recognize some of those faces....

Who's gonna make Gabby bring her behind back in here???
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15 years ago
You are all in our Prayers, we can really understand, we went through this here in NC in 1999.
(((PRAYERS)))
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