As many of you may not know (since the national news has decided not to cover it for some wierd reason), the Missouri river is flooding in ways it hasn't done in over 50 years. By the time it is all said and done, it may be the worst one on record. We are very blessed to have bought a house that even though it is about a mile from the river's edge, is up 2 extremely steep hills and will not have a problem with being flooded. Although, if you go east towards the river, the street is closed off about 4 blocks down due to the flooding. If you go two houses to the north of us, that neighbor's backyard drops about 75 to 100 feet down to a very flat corn field.... which is now in the process of going underwater. We can see it from our backyard even. Dave got on the roof and took some pictures and before the road closed by our house, I got some pictures as well. The only things we are truly concerned about are the OPPD power plant doesn't get damaged by the waters getting into the machinery so they have a long time they are offline and the water treatment plant is down that road that is closed off by our house. The city isn't sure the waters won't get into the plant and contaminate it or that the road to it will continue to be open so the workers can get to it. We do have water storage though for this kind of emergency. And so, I am posting some pictures to show you what we are dealing with (and we don't even have the worst of it).
This is the view into the neighbor's backyard
This is down the street from us where a corn field used to be
This is the creek down there that is normally a tiny trickle... now overflowing
These two pics are the view from our back deck today
We'll post more pics as we get them.
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