april showers...

have started early and HEAVY!!! thursday night the rain was crazy!!! orum had just gotten home about an hour before i took these pictures and parked his truck on the street as usual. I saw the rain pooling as I walked past the front window, but never imagined that it looked like this! renee ran to the window and said, " it's flooded!!!" {she is terrified of floods!!} so we all went to look, and this is what we saw...the silver and white cars are parked in what would be our front yard...there's rocks on each side of the sidewalk and the girls that live upstairs park there. you can see in the distance orum's truck and the other 2 neighbor's cars halfway under water! the water eventually came right up to the bottom of the steps to our house!

the weather channel says that we only got 2.77 inches of rain, and the city says that the pump was working...hmmm??

well, orum decided to wade throught the water and pull his truck into our driveway. on the way he backed into the trash can that was under water. since pick-up was in a couple of hours, it was full, and there was trash everywhere when the water went down!we then watched this guy drive through....i think if i saw cars half under water then i would have stopped and turned around. he didn't and lucky for him he made it through! the police soon showed up to prevent more dumb people from driving though....