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Flash Flood Love

Chicago and the surrounding areas flooded pretty badly yesterday. O'hare's ground floor was closed and flights weren't leaving, but I-90 was shut down so you couldn't get there anyway! Our house flooded some 4-5". About 95% of our family photos went for a swim and are laid out across every inch of available space in our house to dry lol.. it's a balancing act getting around right now.

 

I had been itching to go outside the whole day (even before we discovered our flood) so, after hours of cleanup, what could be a better way to de-stress? Jumping through the floods, of course!! Everything around me was so flooded that I didn't have to go far. It was SO fun :D

 

House is better, but it's going to take months to get back into shape. We have to rip out and re-do half of the walls. Right now we're waiting for Michael's Arts & Crafts to open so we can buy some photo boxes and rediscover our floor :]

 

News and photos:

www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1162537,CST-NWS-flood14.article

 

www.myfoxchicago.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=74...

 

www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-chicago-flooding-ga...

  

Best of luck to everyone affected here and in Texas. We never imagined anything like this happening in Chicago.

  

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Taken on September 13, 2008