How are my other fellow Cheeseheads coping with the flooding??? I live in Reedsburg, about 15 minutes away from the lake that drained (Lake Delton) that took 4 houses and 300 feet of highway along with it (http://www.nbc15.com/home/headlines/19663084.html). That is the freakiest thing about it...I've been by and to that lake HUNDREDS of times and it's just GONE!!
In my town, both of our bridges that crossed the river were closed for the past 36 hours, phone service and internet were down, cell phone service was out and hundreds of people are out of their homes or have serious damage to them.
Here's the news stories of my town: http://wkow.madison.com/News/index.php?ID=22295
My parents' house on the west side of town just missed being damaged as the water line ended one house away and my parents are on a pretty good hill. They were pretty isolated from everywhere as all directions were closed off except the south...out of town. They couldn't get supplies or anything.
Our house was fine as we were about 1/2 mile east of the river over a hill. Homes about 1-2 blocks south of us were pumping water out of their basements and yards, and roads were closed about 3 blocks south towards the river.
In the next town south, Rock Springs, flood stage is 18 feet and their previous record was 21 feet (http://www.nbc15.com/home/headlines/19746989.html). The river is currently at 28 feet and expected to crest tonight. The whole downtown (the block of it) is under 8 feet of water. The little village sits in a rock gorge river valley and it takes hardly anything to flood it...this is a little nuts.
They finally opened the bridge in our town tonight, and it's like a celebration. People are honking horns, trucks are getting supplies to the west side, and people are doing fireworks in their yards. It's been a CRAZY past 4 days (2 days of INTENSE storms & tornadoes followed by 2 days of floods). We're supposed to get more strong storms on Thursday, and I hope they're wrong. It's going to take over a week for the water to recede fully, and then months to repair the damage.
In my town, both of our bridges that crossed the river were closed for the past 36 hours, phone service and internet were down, cell phone service was out and hundreds of people are out of their homes or have serious damage to them.
Here's the news stories of my town: http://wkow.madison.com/News/index.php?ID=22295
My parents' house on the west side of town just missed being damaged as the water line ended one house away and my parents are on a pretty good hill. They were pretty isolated from everywhere as all directions were closed off except the south...out of town. They couldn't get supplies or anything.
Our house was fine as we were about 1/2 mile east of the river over a hill. Homes about 1-2 blocks south of us were pumping water out of their basements and yards, and roads were closed about 3 blocks south towards the river.
In the next town south, Rock Springs, flood stage is 18 feet and their previous record was 21 feet (http://www.nbc15.com/home/headlines/19746989.html). The river is currently at 28 feet and expected to crest tonight. The whole downtown (the block of it) is under 8 feet of water. The little village sits in a rock gorge river valley and it takes hardly anything to flood it...this is a little nuts.
They finally opened the bridge in our town tonight, and it's like a celebration. People are honking horns, trucks are getting supplies to the west side, and people are doing fireworks in their yards. It's been a CRAZY past 4 days (2 days of INTENSE storms & tornadoes followed by 2 days of floods). We're supposed to get more strong storms on Thursday, and I hope they're wrong. It's going to take over a week for the water to recede fully, and then months to repair the damage.
I think you mean tornado, and no, they aren't related, but the worst part is that there are a lot of people in northeastern Iowa that lost their homes because of that tornado and are now being evacuated from the relatives' and friends' homes as well as shelters because of this flooding. It's kind of sad that on the news tonight they were telling those people that they would only need to file for FEMA assistance once. FEMA is going to come to one area to deal with two separate natural disasters at the same time (an EF5 tornado and the worst flood in fifteen years... 
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