ames

If you don't live in Iowa, you might not know...it has been raining and storming here...A LOT. Our days have been HOT, HOT....like over 100 degrees. But the last 3 nights, it has STORMED...and RAINED. Monday morning, I found a little bit of water in our storage room in the basement...and the carpet is damp in one spot in the basement bedroom. SO...we have been running the dehumidifier and 2 fans nonstop since. Was drying up pretty good yesterday...until it rained again last night. More water in the storage room this morning, and the carpet is pretty damp again in the same spot. Our sump pump is dry...I guess the water is coming up through some cracks in the floor...

BUT...I think we are LUCKY compared to some.

Check the photos below we took this morning on Josh's phone on our way to my doctor's appointment...which we never made it to...after driving around town for 45 minutes...and finally giving up - there were NO roads we could get through to get to the doctor's office.

We are completely fine, and our basement will survive. :) I am supposed to go to school for a few hours in the morning...we will see...Hwy. 30 is completely under water.

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This is the spillway/cement creek less than a block from our house.

Taken from our car...we were on University Blvd. near Reiman Gardens...this is one of the parking lots by Jack Trice.

Stange Road, headed out to Somerset. The golf course is on the left...

Lincoln Way. Maple/Willow/Larch are the dorms on the left.



Hilton Coliseum.

The alumni center that is by one of the Hilton parking lots.