Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Flood update

Things are pretty much back to normal for us at home.  The water is gone and, except for our AC unit, everything is unharmed.  The repair man is coming out tomorrow to assess the damage on the AC.  We're hoping it's an easy and inexpensive fix!

The rest of town, however, is far from okay.  There is only one road open going in and out of the downtown area.  The public schools have been closed for three days now and will stay closed until the roads open.  Austin Peay went back today only because it's finals week and they need to make up the exams they missed Monday and Tuesday.  The university gave students an out, though, telling them to call their professors if they couldn't make it to school and the professors will have to reschedule for anyone who can't make it.  Needless to say, it's still a pretty big mess here.  I'll let the pictures say the rest.

This is what our yard and our neighbors' house is supposed to look like.
It's quite a difference compared to the picture in our last post.



The store on the right is Mary's Music.  It's the only music store in town.



At least someone is enjoying all the water.



Riverside Dr. - Downtown Clarksville.



The river walk.



A birdseye view of Riverside Dr.



Somewhere under all that water is the intersection I drive through every day to get to work.
The little red square on the left side, about half way down, is the top of McDonalds.



This is the building in the top left corner of the previous picture.
The two brick pillars on the left outline the Mexican restaurant we went
to with Frank and Patty when they visited in November.



A close up of McDonalds.

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Rain, rain, go away./We should have bought an ark.

We've had quite a bit of rain this weekend and it's wreaking havoc in our neighborhood.  Our next door neighbor has temporarily abandoned her home, as it is partially under water.  We are more fortunate in that our house sits up a little higher, though part of our yard has turned in to a pond.  The fire department was over last night and said this is the worst storm since '79.  They unofficially dubbed our yard, along with the neighbor's yard and house, "Lake Vaughan" (we live on Vaughan Rd.).  It's been raining since 4:30 a.m. yesterday and isn't predicted to stop sometime tonight or tomorrow.  Good news is the weather is supposed to clear up during the week.  Bad news is it's supposed to rain again all next weekend.  Oh boy!

Our neighbor's house.

Part of our yard, and our poor, little, submerged tree.

It gets deeper, but Chris didn't feel like going swimming today.


There's a drain under there somewhere.


Chris tried to unclog the drain, to no avail.