As you may have heard/seen on the news, parts of IL and IA have been flooded from the past weeks storms. Our town (Freeport) has been effected pretty badly but not too severe compaired to what happened in some other areas. MANY roads have been flooded, highways flooded, businesses under water, TONS of crops ruined, our beautiful park is now pretty much one huge body of water, bridges covered, some homes completely underwater and destroyed, MANY homes with permanent damage, and almost everyone with water in the basement (anywhere from inches to feet, or in my dads case, completely full) It has been somewhat surreal to look at!
We were lucky enough to have been minimally effected. A little water in our basement and a minor roof leak is all. My dad on the other hand, was not so lucky. His house is on the other side of town by the river and is currently surrounded by water waist deep. He was able to get out before things got too bad. The house sits aways up off of ground level and last he checked water was only a foot away from coming in the front door and it was still rising. So for now he is not able to get to his home or enter it. You cant even drive close to his home, you have to park and wade through waist deep water to get to it. Until things subside, its hard to tell what the damage will be. There are so many people who are ok but have lost their water heaters and furnaces due to flood damage. So Im sure that Ryan will be quite busy in the next weeks installing new equipment into homes all around town and the surrounding area. A small town about ten minutes away from us (Pearl City) has been pretty much completely underwater. This is so sad to see and scary to think that they are calling for more rain in just two days. I dont know exactly how or when things will get cleaned up but Im gessing that this will take a while. We are so thankful that we directly werent badly effected. But please pray for our town and for my dad. I cant imagine what it must feel like to have lost so much!
Here are some pictures:
The below is a photo of a bridge (underwater) at the back entrance of our park
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Another photo of our park underwater. . you can normally stand under that road and still have a few feet of room above your head
This is the same bridge/road
The above is a photo of our race track completely underwater
The above two photos is one of our fire stations
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