We've had rain recently. The other night we had 10-13 inches in the western part of Dane County. Madison is in the middle of the county and it was literally down the center, and we are just east of that line. We had several inches of rain here too, by the way, even had to bring up the rugs in the basement, but no major issues. In other parts of the city that amount of water had an immediate - and in many places an ongoing - effect, and in the days after the water is running it's course, down the chain of lakes, starting with Mendota.
I don't want to write a lot, I'm tired. But I haven't posted much and this is very significant to us. Below you will see pictures stolen from the neighborhood farcebook group page along with pictures I took during a bike ride last year. The Yahara/East Washington bridge below, a few of the Tenney Lock after the break, and a last tired thought at the end.
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| My picture, last September. |
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| Recent farcebook picture |
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| Recent farcebook picture. |
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| My picture, last September. |
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| Recent farcebook picture. |
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| My picture, last September. |
This doesn't do justice to all the ongoing flooding and all the issues that come with that. The amount of water for just this very large lake to be that high, and flowing down through our chain of lakes and all the communities that can be flooded by that flow, and the management of the floodwaters is incredible. It's all fun and games until you get double digit inches of rainfall in a single day.
3 comments:
Wow!
But your President says that climate change doesn't exist...
Hope things improve soon.
This will make you laugh... the "Please prove you're not a robot" form said 'Please select all pictures of boats!!!
Blimey.
That looks astonishing but not fun to deal with.
Hopefully it will subside and the water will level out.
I heard it's worse today, they're worried about erosion on the dam side as the water is coming over the top on that side. If that starts the whole thing could fail. Downtown streets are flooded in places, making travel to and from on the isthmus, a natural bottleneck itself, a nightmare for residents and commuters.
We've been okay here, no new water in the basement today but Starkweather Creek at the end of the street is full. Also, there was just something about this scenario in the newspaper a few weeks ago. I wish I saved it, but I'll see if I can find it online this weekend.
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