What! No Rain?

Yea!  It finally stopped raining (for today anyway).  In the last week, we have received over 11 inches of rain here in southern Indiana.  It did stop for Friday and Saturday, so we took advantage of the sunshine and headed outside!  Friday we met Daddy for lunch at our favorite park in Haubstadt!  Then, Saturday morning we headed over to Newburgh and walked around some of the downtown shops and along the river walk.  It is crazy to see how high the Ohio River is at this point...and they are calling for more rain starting tonight and through the week :(

As we were making our way back to the truck after our walk, we saw a couple tug boats and barges coming up the river.  There happened to be a nice area for Doug and I to sit and  watch, and the kiddos could run around and "watch".

Here's a slide show of some pictures I was able to get of the flooding

Until next time...

What do you get when...

The day starts out with a huge thunderstorm that passes by to the north...
The sun comes out and raises the temperature (very, very quickly) to around 85 degrees...
and the humidity is 98 to 100%?

Did you say another storm?

Yes, that is correct. But what else?

Give up?

How about 3 and 3/10 inches of rain in a little under an hour and a half!

Yep...that's what happened here yesterday. Doug, Dallas and I drove around last night after Doug had to drive through some water across the road to get home from work. He didn't think they were nearly as bad as this...
That is about a mile from our house...I think they might have to put down some more gravel...

This is the English River close to a field Doug's department has planted in before. As we drove up to the bridge, this little log was drifting on down the river...

Oh, wait! That's no little log! That's more like a tree trunk!!!

Um...yeah. You can typically easily walk across this river and not get your knees wet. Don't think we'll be trying it for a while.

Until next time...