Singin' in the rain....

We've made it through the night without having to wear life jackets! It seemed to have stopped raining for a part of the night, but is back at it this morning. Dean took a picture this morning and we could see that the water had receded about 2" over night - which is good! However, it will be rising more today (but we still have that extra 2" to fill in first). It's quite unsettling to look out our bedroom window and see water instead of lawn. This is the same amount of flooding we had on the day that we bought the house, last summer. The water didn't come in then, and we're hoping for the same luck this time. I've also been thinking about the people who live downstream of here. There are some homes that are, literally, right on the river bank. I'm sure they are flooded, even if they have "sea walls". The people across the river from us have a "sea wall" that their boat is floating above right now. With the attention of the weather media focused on Ike for the past few days, we haven't heard much about what is going on in Northern Illinois. Maybe now that Ike is moving up through the mid-west we'll see more of what's happening here. The current prediction is for a few inches of rain, at least. I wonder if the life jackets, out in the shed, will fit the kitties?....


UPDATE: The rain has just stopped, radar shows no more to our west - in fact, regional radar shows whats left of Ike's eye has zipped past us and is in the Detroit area! The Fox has peaked, and is down about 4" from what this shows the peak at about 1800 yesterday. The radar map of total rainfall is current, showing we've had about 10" the last few days. Still to come - the obligatory shots of us catching trapped fish in the yard, or better yet - shots of herons catching them!