# Flooded Midwestern Dopers: report? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 8, 2008, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flooded-midwestern-dopers-report/452184 "2008-06-08T00:32:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2008, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flooded-midwestern-dopers-report/452184/21 "2008-06-09T02:37:22Z")
[QUOTE=Qadgop the Mercotan] More incoming at me right now, should arrive in 30 minutes. Big storms by radar! And the waters had just been dropping around my house! [/QUOTE] Our’s hadn’t even started dropping. Sure, the river dropped back under the road, but there’s still alot of HUGE puddle/ponds. Even earlier today when it was compleatly ‘dry’ out you could still see alot of water flowing off of any big (pitched) fields. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2008, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flooded-midwestern-dopers-report/452184/22 "2008-06-09T02:42:26Z")
Had a really enjoyable day paddling on what last week was far too shallow to paddle: [[http://my.tbaytel.net/culpeperlaw/McIntyre](http://my.tbaytel.net/culpeperlaw/McIntyre) Creek 20080608131554000.jpg]([http://my.tbaytel.net/culpeperlaw/McIntyre](http://my.tbaytel.net/culpeperlaw/McIntyre) Creek 20080608131554000.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2008, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flooded-midwestern-dopers-report/452184/23 "2008-06-09T02:53:29Z")
[QUOTE=Joey P] Our’s hadn’t even started dropping. Sure, the river dropped back under the road, but there’s still alot of HUGE puddle/ponds. Even earlier today when it was compleatly ‘dry’ out you could still see alot of water flowing off of any big (pitched) fields. [/QUOTE] Oh, my fields are still flooded, my new road (put in a few weeks ago) got blown out at the swail, and I still have to drive thru 6 inches of water to get from my garage to the town road, but before the last round of storms, the water in my driveway had backed off about a foot! But we live within yards of Lake Michigan, so it runs off fast fast fast here. And if the river’s under the road by you, that’s a big dropoff! ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2008, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flooded-midwestern-dopers-report/452184/24 "2008-06-09T04:15:57Z")
[QUOTE=Qadgop the Mercotan] And if the river’s under the road by you, that’s a big dropoff! [/QUOTE] River was the wrong word. It’s more of a drainage creek for the airport. From what I could tell it looked like it was about 6 inches over the road last night and this morning it looked like it was a about a foot and a half under it. ---
**Author:** ![Bike\_Rider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Bike\_Rider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bike_Rider)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2008, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flooded-midwestern-dopers-report/452184/25 "2008-06-09T18:33:55Z")
Thanks for the update, Danja! I grew up in Columbus, IN and have been following this in the online version of the Republic. Stay safe! ---
**Author:** ![nonacetone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonacetone/32/2819_2.png) [@nonacetone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nonacetone)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flooded-midwestern-dopers-report/452184/26 "2008-06-10T01:43:40Z")
It’s pouring rain, again. There is more rain to the southwest of here, and it is heading this way. Just what we _do not_ need. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flooded-midwestern-dopers-report/452184/27 "2008-06-10T02:00:29Z")
Saint Paul, MN. Some small hail for one storm. Rain on and off. Nothing too wild. Tornado 30 or so miles to the northeast killed a little girl. Pretty normal spring all told. It could stand to be a bit warmer. ---
**Author:** ![SaharaTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flooded-midwestern-dopers-report/452184/28 "2008-06-10T13:52:55Z")
Milwaukee. Our basement only had a little water in it, but some good friends of ours who only live a mile away weren’t so lucky. They had 6 inches in their basement. Most of it, including their awesome 1970’s-style bar, is destroyed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flooded-midwestern-dopers-report/452184.md?page=1)