I now have a lake house!

[Lori63]

Thanks to Jeanne, I now have a lake house! Anyone want to come see the 4 inches ( and rising) of water in my basement? What a mess :(

[nanajoanie]

Wanna borrow my swimmies? I have 2 pair. I only need one pair to float to my mailbox at the road :D

[Momof2totsand1teen]

What a mess! Hope you can get it dried up soon. Did anything get ruined?

[DivineMsDi]

Wow, that stinks....we are finally getting some of the Jeanne weather up here....expecting bad showers again later....(probably when I go out to get my son at the bus-stop...) Well, hey, I bought that new umbrella for something.

Take care all you drenched Southern people!!!

[Angel Lips]

wow that does stink, our basement floods out to especially with the last storm we had ( hurrican ivan).

[catdance]

wow, I am sorry, that just must STINK..I send you warm ((HUGS)), and if I had one of those water pumpy thingies, I would send that too..first when I saw this post, I was thinking, ah..cool, a lake house only to read a FLOOD house...dear..sending you some vibes. of all good, but I haven't got the cleaning fairy..

[bell_peaches]

((((((((((((HUGS))))))))))))))) I pray it stops and dries out for you. do you have a pump to get it out?

[ajksmom]

Yep, me too. Schools were closed today because so many roads were flooded out. It did stop raining around noon here, so maybe they will go tomorrow.

[mandapoo]

I totally feel your pain! The river crept up on our roads quick here in Roanoke, VA. My mom had to go pick up my DS from school because we were trapped on our road. Here are some pictures from the end of our road (Scary stuff!!)

http://members.cox.net/amanda5401/Flood09282004/Pict0127.jpg
http://members.cox.net/amanda5401/Flood09282004/Pict0129.jpg
http://members.cox.net/amanda5401/Flood09282004/Pict0143.jpg
http://members.cox.net/amanda5401/Flood09282004/Pict0145.jpg
http://members.cox.net/amanda5401/Flood09282004/Pict0146.jpg
http://members.cox.net/amanda5401/Flood09282004/Pict0152.jpg
http://members.cox.net/amanda5401/Flood09282004/Pict0153.jpg
http://members.cox.net/amanda5401/Flood09282004/Pict0154.jpg

And a picture of the stadium about a 1/4 mile from us that a friend sent to me

http://members.cox.net/amanda5401/Flood09282004/Victory%20Stadium.jpg

Also near the stadium.
http://members.cox.net/amanda5401/Flood09282004/JeffersonStreet.jpg

[Lori63]

I'm in Waynesboro-2 hours north of Roanoke. I did end up with over 6 inches of water, but hubby came home and we got everything up off the floor. We used 2 shopvacs and got most of it cleaned up fast-I just want to clean everything today. The kids got out of school an hour early- the middle school and high school both had water in them. My town is just not meant to handle water-the streets and drains fill up fast and there is nowhere for the rain to go.
Thanks for all the nice replies. All in all we fared better than our friends in Florida-my heart really goes out to them.

[DAVESBABYDOLL]

The storms have been terrible,raining like mad here again today,but unlike y'all, we need the rain.

[heymom]

I sooo feel for you. When Francis came through we over a foot of water in the basement. :(
On the funny side tho , when I went down to turn on the sump , my 4 yr old followed and said Oh mommy we haf a fwimmin poo. :)

[Lori63]

You do have to look at the funny side when it happens. The last time, I was bailing water into the sink and the litter box when floating by, and it just struck me as hilarious.

[joni1269]

Sorry to hear that - I hope everything works out...

Did the other two come your way?

[Lori63]

We got rain from Charley, Frances, and Ivan, but nothing like we got from Jeanne. Isabel visited us last year.