I wanted to post these over a month ago, but I thought I was going to drive around now that it’s dry and take comparison pics. I’ve been busy so that never happened.

Overnight on Wednesday April 17th -  Thursday, April 18th, it rained like crazy! On the morning of the 18th, reports of total rainfall for the previous 24 hours showed that we got about 6.5 inches of rain. Many of our neighbors had basement flooding, streets were impassable, and most of the local school districts cancelled. Our school district didn't close, but that proved to be a pretty big mistake. Around 9am, our students and teachers were basically trapped inside of our subdivision! The main road leading from the “front” and “back” exits was flooded, as was the main road out the front. We all got a call around 11am to come and get our kids. The teachers and “outside subdivision” kids got out (somehow) around 2 I think.

To this day (May 25th), the road directly outside of our subdivision is closed in one direction because a bridge washed out…it will be closed until Mid-June. Unfortunately, that’s my easy-access to Walgreen’s. Needless to say, our wallets are much fatter since I can’t make it to my (overly priced compared to the grocery store) favorite shopping spot. Brady and I visiting the park down by the Fox River last week and there are PILES of river rocks all over the place where there used to be a grassy bank.

Here are pictures that Brian and I took with Brady driving around on Thursday morning. This is a picture of the fields behind our subdivision – normally, this is all farmland.

another picture of the field (dashboard of my car in the fore-ground with our “sticky man” on it…inside weird joke)

This is the playground at our school

That’s a goose swimming around in a field

This is the path the kids use to walk to school (see the start of it off in the distance?)

That’s a road