Blackberry Farm flooding

    flooding at Blackberry Farm along Galena Boulevard in Aurora Illinois

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    1. MileHiPentax (45 months ago | reply)

      Wow. I don't remember ever seeing the water this high. Yikes!

    2. BitHead (45 months ago | reply)

      The water has receded now and this building is on dry (or drying) ground now. But when I was over here, another local resident said he hadn't seen it this bad since 1996 (long before I moved here).

    3. MileHiPentax (45 months ago | reply)

      I was still living back there during the 1996 floods. The water was probably this high here, but I couldn't really get there because of closed roads. My uncle lived in one of the hard hit sub-divisions (I think it's called Cherry Hill, if I recall correctly). He had a lot of water damage. I remember going over to help him clean his house out and couldn't believe how much stuff was damaged throughout the subdivision.

    4. BitHead (45 months ago | reply)

      Yes, Cherry Hill was one of the nearby neighborhoods that got hit hard back then. This time was nowhere near as bad, but a couple of the roads in the area are still closed today.

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