Post by SPLASH on May 4, 2012 22:11:45 GMT -5
I left for work at midnight and the rain was crazy at times, but I missed the flooding. I got back to town around 2pm and farm fields are lakes with many of the country roads were still closed.
Here is a video of the newscast. If you go the 7:10 mark, that's the city I live just a couple miles outside of. Those powerlines and poles over the street started with the wind, but one sagging a semi snagged the lines and pulled those poles.
My Aunt lives in an apartment complex on that road and another building was evacuated when the basement filled completely with water and collapsed some of the first floors.
My Grandfather is in the city and lost power around midnight after that semi incident and with no sump pump ended up with over ankle deep water in his finished basement. Friends of mine have the creek run behind their house and once the creek came over the banks (100 yards from the house) they ended up with 4 feet of water in the first floor ( you step down about 6 steps into the main floor from outside). Their kitchen and laundry room are on that floor. Bye bye appliances. Another friend has a pond in their backyard that flooded over the road into the field. Their truck had water up to the doors, it also flooded some of the neighbors houses.
A semi driver was rescued from the top of his cab by boat on I-75 in Flint township. I-75, I-69, and US23 were closed.
www.wnem.com/story/18150702/state-of-emergency-declared
Good slideshow. www.wnem.com/slideshow?widgetid=51801
Here is a video of the newscast. If you go the 7:10 mark, that's the city I live just a couple miles outside of. Those powerlines and poles over the street started with the wind, but one sagging a semi snagged the lines and pulled those poles.
My Aunt lives in an apartment complex on that road and another building was evacuated when the basement filled completely with water and collapsed some of the first floors.
My Grandfather is in the city and lost power around midnight after that semi incident and with no sump pump ended up with over ankle deep water in his finished basement. Friends of mine have the creek run behind their house and once the creek came over the banks (100 yards from the house) they ended up with 4 feet of water in the first floor ( you step down about 6 steps into the main floor from outside). Their kitchen and laundry room are on that floor. Bye bye appliances. Another friend has a pond in their backyard that flooded over the road into the field. Their truck had water up to the doors, it also flooded some of the neighbors houses.
A semi driver was rescued from the top of his cab by boat on I-75 in Flint township. I-75, I-69, and US23 were closed.
www.wnem.com/story/18150702/state-of-emergency-declared
Good slideshow. www.wnem.com/slideshow?widgetid=51801