Our yard. Notice the standing water on the patio.
Our greenbelt aka neighborhood lake. U took this on his way to work.
Same greenbelt from a slightly different view a couple hours later. Even the sidewalk is covered! There's probably 4-5 feet of water.
And a few pictures from tonight--this is the parking lot at our library/high school.
People taking advantage of the local "lake."
Canoes!
There are actually lots of pictures on Facebook of friends canoeing, tubing and playing in the water. These are just some people we happened to see tonight when we were driving into the neighborhood. Pretty crazy!
Sarah chose to go to school this morning because it was the first day of choir. If it hadn't been for that, we might have kept her home as we got a few emails from the school telling us that we didn't need to bring our kids in and that it was a movie and activities day. But at that point, we had already dropped her off. She had a fun time--they watched some of 'Finding Nemo" and played a lot of board games. The ducks discovered their playground lake which was fun for the kids to watch. By the end of the day, there were only 7 kids in her class. She says next time, she'd rather stay home :)
So it's been a crazy day!
Last night was a bit crazy, too. Matthew came in around 12:50 needing to go potty so I took him and then went back to bed. Around 2:20, the thunder and lightning woke me up. I went downstairs to unplug some electronics. When I went back to bed, Megan was in my bed. I had her go back to her room and went and laid down with her. Sarah came into Megan and Matthew's room as well. There was lightning all around us and some of the thunder was so loud it shook the house. I ended up sleeping in their room until morning. And then Matthew had a bloody nose off and on all day. Interesting, interesting.
Wow! That's a lot of rain in a day! Deserts don't handle it too well. Glad your house didn't flood.
ReplyDeleteAmazing amount of rain. It sounds like a lot of people took advantage by playing in it.
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