Calls asking about flooding... after ours is done

Saturday after my last post, we got two calls from parents -- one from each set -- asking about how we were doing with flooding. This amused me because our flooding happened on Wednesday. Since then, the state has apparently had the worst flooding in 100 years or something.

We wouldn't have noticed ourselves, as none of the areas we went to over the weekend were directly affected. If it hadn't been for the calls from parents, we would only have noticed due to headlines later and because some friends of ours had their weekend plans altered due to the flooding; one friend was supposed to fly somewhere on Saturday, but was unable to reach Indy to get to the airport.

Basically, Bloomington itself wasn't hit too hard by that flooding. We mostly couldn't get anywhere. Depending on timing, the vehicle being driven, and the person behind the wheel, Bloomington was either an island or a peninsula. People couldn't get from Martinsville to Bloomington, and Mark has walked to Martinsville from our house. (Okay, so he's a little crazy, but still...)

Rain, rain, go away

Yesterday was an interesting one weather-wise. I'd gone to a friend's house to spend some time with her, she working on some sewing she's doing for someone, and me working on some of my computer stuff. We went out to grab lunch and got back a little after 2; the weather wasn't so bad then. But then it started raining. And I mean it was pouring. We've had over 3 inches of rain since the beginning of June (isn't it still the beginning of June?), and most of it was yesterday afternoon. I waited at the house for a while before going to pick up Mark from work due to what we'd heard about road conditions in town.

The following links should take you to photo galleries at the Herald Times from around town yesterday afternoon. At times like this it's nice to live on a hill.

Herald Times photos

Reader-submitted photos