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April 17-18 Heavy Rain Event


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SchStormer - you turned your camera sideways, that's why the second one is like that. If you open the photos in a program like Microsoft office picture manager you can turn your pics to the right direction.

 

This spot was about a block away. Water is completely surrounding this house and is in their garage.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Love this comment on the video: "Have to love that some idiot had to honk. "SORRY to pause a moment before driving through a geyser..."

 

Lol I know. It's like the person who honked, drives through street geysers on a regular basis and doesn't think it's a big deal for anyone!

 

Except for a couple showers, this event looks to be done.

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I was looking at various radars on my GR for radar estimated rainfall totals (some impressive numbers, by the way) and I saw a small green dot. When I clicked on it, this came up:

 

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
608 PM CDT THU APR 18 2013

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR A LEVEE FAILURE IN...
  EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL FULTON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS...


* UNTIL 600 AM CDT FRIDAY.

* AT 607 PM CDT...A LEVEE ON THE SPOON RIVER FAILED CAUSING FLASH
  FLOODING OF IMMEDIATELY SURROUNDING AREAS.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE LONDON MILLS...ILLINOIS HIGHWAY 116
  AND COUNTY ROAD 2.

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Events like this is what put the local Municipal golf course out of business (flooding of course indicated below). Shame for LAF resident golfers, but bad location.

 

THE FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR
THE WABASH RIVER AT LAFAYETTE.
* UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.
* AT 7:30 PM THURSDAY THE STAGE WAS 17.2 FEET.
* FLOOD STAGE IS 11.0 FEET.
* MINOR FLOODING IS OCCURRING AND MODERATE FLOODING IS FORECAST.
* FORECAST...THE RIVER WILL CONTINUE RISING TO NEAR 20.5 FEET BY
EARLY SATURDAY MORNING THEN BEGIN FALLING.
* AT 21.0 FEET...FLOOD BECOME MORE EXTENSIVE AND BLOCKS ACCESS TO
WABASH VALLEY HOSPITAL BY SR 43. SHAMROCK PARK AND THE MUNICIPAL
GOLF COURSE ARE EXTENSIVELY FLOODED. RESIDENTS ALONG NORTH RIVER
RD...DAVIS FERRY RD AREA AND BARTON BEACH ROAD AREA ARE IMPACTED BY
FLOOD WATERS. IN TIPPECANOE COUNTY BARTON BEACH RD...SR 225...CR
950 W AND PORTIONS OF DIVISION AND CR 700 W ARE FLOODED NEAR THE
RIVER.

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 power line along the road held up good..  imagine an ice storm with all those big tree's, yikes.  Bet it looks nice on that road in fall.

 

Those trees/power lines look precarious. But yeah, a decent scenic drive...if there is such a thing here.

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Good amount of road flooding in the area. Photo below of River Road/SR 43, from the link below.

 

http://www.wlfi.com/dpp/news/local/beware-of-downed-trees-flash-flooding-with-unstable-storm-system

 

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Actually drove through that same stretch of road while in Indiana today, was surprised it was open to traffic as there we a few spots with water over the road.

 

On the way back home we decided to check out the Des Plaines River in Gurnee, much of the old Grand Ave area was under water.

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Light is relative, it was moderate to occasionally heavy rain much of the day, but not nearly as intense as in parts of Iowa, N Missouri, and N Illinois.

 

 

not here and at the airport on wed..   would have had a lot more than 1" of rain if so.

 

up to 6.88" for the month... Forget what Brewers said the record was but we should have a good chance of passing it.

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not here and at the airport on wed..   would have had a lot more than 1" of rain if so.

 

up to 6.88" for the month... Forget what Brewers said the record was but we should have a good chance of passing it.

 

Good to see someone keeping tabs on things, been way to busy to pay attention. The record is 7.31" so we have a legit shot at it.

 

2.65" for a storm total here.

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