Rain, Rain, and More Rain

Its been a very wet week so far. Over the weekend Kalona had about 2.5 to 3 inches of rain. At that point I thought our back yard looked like a lake. Then on Tuesday we had another 2 inches in about 30 minutes. It rained so hard and when I looked out my living room window to the street, all I saw was water rushing down the street and our yard was taken over by water. I immediately ran to the basement to check for water down there. We have had several issues with that in the past and when it rains so much in such a little time, along with the ground being so saturated with the previous rain, I was afraid we would have a mess. At the time we just had a small spot in the basement that was wet. I quickly got in my car and went to Mom and Dad's to check their basement because neither of them were at home. They had some water coming in one of the windows in the basement so I put some towels down and started some fans and went back home. I was at Mom and Dad's house about 10-15 minutes and when I got back to our house there was about 4 inches of water in our basement. Dad and Joe were both on their way home and I started carrying buckets of water up the stairs and out the door. It was a long afternoon but we finally got the water out and were able to get fans started to dry things out. Fortunately because of the rain over the weekend we had everything up and off the floor so we didn't have too much damage. Unfortunately I didn't think about grabbing my camera during this time so I don't have pictures to document the Fernau flood of 2010.