Before today, Edwardsville, IL had received almost 12 inches of rain in the past two days.  And today, we got dumped on again...probably another couple inches in about 45 minutes.  Lakes are overflowing, roads are flooding, basements are collapsing, cars are being washed off of roads and into lakes, everything is saturated with rain...and worst of all, our softball game was cancelled.

Here is a shot of the flooding in the Ebbets Field subdivision.  I sure hope Robert Plumber (RP Lumber) does a good job waterproofing the basements there. (with what people pay to live there, he better)


This is a shot of Chancellor Drive after 30 minutes of rain.  I had to get in on the passenger side of my Jeep because the driver's side had about six inches of water over there.  The water was up into people's yards.  I rolled down my window to take this photo of the car splashing water...and as it went by...you guessed it, it tossed some water up into my car.


Ugh...enough with the rain.
The only thing this rain is doing is slowing down the construction of our house.  The siding still needs to go on...and it won't go on when it is raining.

On the bright side, Jeff's basement is bone dry, which is surprising with all of the trouble everyone seems to be having with water in their basements around here.  The basement at the new house was dry as well, except for where some rain got in because the chimney isn't fully complete yet...so no biggie there.

I wonder how the basement at 117 Edding lane is doing?  It can't be good.  Have fun with that Tom.

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