Stay safe!!
Thanks for the concern people. The water is of course still slowly rising. The area outside that is dry is minuscule. There’s almost no room left to move stuff to. Two more inches and it covers the driveway and gets into the garage. I suppose I have to try and make sure tools are up higher, but since the garage is now full of stuff from the flooded shed I can’t move around in there.
I’ll be in the next handbasket over, having cracked up at the “exclusive lakefront lots” Google ad.
So far, so good: Dams in Pardeeville, Wyocena holding.
Only one person is going to Hell so far. The bitch I almost punched last night at WalMart can go there. Here’s a little of her conversation to another worker condensed for meaning.
I’m never present for a disaster like a dam breaking and homes washing away. Tuff shit for the people involved. Their not me, so I don’t care, because their dumb asses anyway. I want it to break now so I can watch. I suppose the taxes will go up to make us pay for their stuff.
I left at about that time. I admit I left talking out loud about a fucking cunt for at least a minute.
The water is still creeping up. We’ve been without rain for almost 36 hours. One of the roads to get around Portage is washed out. The other two routes are flooded in places so you have to go on the other side of the road. The second fox river bridge after our house washed away. That would be the bridge for county CM. The bridge for county O is the next one and that is only a couple feet above water. The bridge near us is only a couple feet above the water too. The fire department wanted to leave sand bags for us. Ma told them no. What are we going to do with them at this point? Making a 3 foot tall dike circling the property in the flood waters isn’t going to work.
Sending good vibes to you. Stay safe.
My stomach got sick when I watched the Yahoo video of the house being swept away in the Lake Delton dam break earlier. It sounds like you are in a precarious situation, Harmonious Discord, please evac sooner rather than later.
We drove through Wisconsin in May - beautiful country, that we fully anticipate going back to (on a cheese tour, of course 
). I can see where all the water would be a problem - you guys are nothing but lakes, rivers, and creeks.
Fingers crossed for all youse guys.
Stay safe. That sounds like a terrible experience.
But hey! The Wisconsin Dells would like y’all to know they’re still open for business!
How nice.
She’s an ass. Just like the people who talked trash about our coast after Katrina. She’s not worth wasting your mental energy on.
What I’m reading on the news says the Fox crested yesteraday, so maybe it’s not going to get much worse. I hope not anyway.
I didn’t check any of these links, so this may be redundant, but Lake Delton is a manmade lake that is approximately eight feet deep. The pictures now show mud and debris. It is all around eerie. Some kid was out with his metal detector looking for treasure.
This was on GMA this morning also, and the footage was heartwrenching, especially the home they filmed in the process of falling.
Today was an absolutely picture perfect day here, but I think we are so drenched it likely did nothing to water levels, and in fact I think I heard the water levels are still rising. Coming home from Madison tonight almost every single field has standing water in it, enough to qualify for pond status. I am afraid the blow to our agricultural economy is going to be more than stunning. At this time of the year, all fields need to be in to make any money from them, and they look to be, but the yields will be terrible.
They put sand bags on both sides of the driveway. The water is creeping over the drive now, but what good are sandbags without a pump? The water will rise even farther for at least two days, because they are releasing as much water as possible on the Wyocena and Pardeeville dams. A failed dam is a lot worse than a controlled flood after all.
The basement seepage has doubled and the paint on the floor is blistering off. It’s never done that before. I expect the bare cement to leak faster. I’m changing the sub pumps over to a larger discharge line so they can pump a larger volume. I just installed a back flow valve on one so we can reroute 6 feet up with a long run.
I moved the down spout discharge to outside the sandbag area. The water would be flowing through the door into a basement, if i hadn’t gotten the lower opening sealed up. It can hold out a water rise for about ten more inches how it’s done now. The house above the basement is not in danger from this rising water for at least 3 feet. The garage is likely to flood inside in another inch of rise. I’ve been clearing the low area of the garage all day.
I’m off to try and finish the sub pump redo. I’ve been eating during the update.
Wow, I’m so sorry to hear what an ordeal this is for you 
I’m posting some pictures and don’t expect more anytime soon. There are a few nice ones from this morning. I put in a close up of one of my peonies taken before they started going under water too.
I’m officially done. I can’t do anything else. The garage is flooded. One of the basements is a losing cause. At some point I’ll install that pump into the main basement with the furnace and stuff. I had to stop mom from loading junk prints from my grandpa’s estate into the truck to take to Goodwill. I told her the truck was for valuables not garbage for Goodwill to sell at $1. Garbage for charity verses goods worth hundreds of dollars a piece that we want.
How are things? Is the water going down? up? are you guys OK?
I was wondering something else too.
Last year we were talking about flooding, and the following scenario:
Do you think that now, the people in that town have a fighting chance to get the city to join the NFIP? If so, it would be one good thing to come out of this flood.
Thanks for asking. There is the potential today for it to get even worse, actually. I only heard a snippet on the radio last night, but they are talking about closing off a section of the Interstate up closer to Harmonious Discord’s neck of the woods. He is apparently located approximately 40’ish miles to the north of me. Here in the Madison area, even these lakes are getting scarily high.
And on top of that, they are predicting 1-3 inches today. There is nowhere for this water to go. The weatherman just said things are going to get worse before they get better, and my fear is that the “worse” part of that could be disastrous.
I hope we hear from Harmonious Discord.
Fingers crossed for Harmonious Discord. Hopefully they got enough into the truck and the rest into the attic.