On Thursday, I had to go take a math placement test, and I had to get up at 6 so I could get there in time. Right as my mom and I were about to leave, we got a call saying that we didn't have school.Right then, I looked outside and realized that our backyard had now turned into a pond. So we leave for the test and when we are coming back, rain has now been coming down hard for a long time now, and as we are driving, we see some of the Des Plaines River. If you did not see the river while it was flooded, it was crazy. The water seemed to be about ten feet above normal and I swear, I could have touched the water by just leaning over the bridge. We also got to a point where we were able to see Silver Creek, which is a part of the Des Plaines River, and when I looked at it, there was a lot of mist on the top of the water, and it looked really creepy. Finally, when we got close to home, we passed a cemetery, and at first, it didn't seem like there were many headstones. Then, I realized that about half of the headstones were fully underwater, which was crazy. When we got home, we looked at our basement (our basement floods a lot), and to our surprise, we had one and a half feet of standing water down there. We also later realized that the water had reached our furnace and hot-water heater, so for about a week, we are not going to have any heat or hot water, which will be an interesting experience.
AuthorHi. This is Ned. I am in 8th grade and these are my blogs. I will be updating them every week. Enjoy. Archives
May 2013
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