The Flood

As I was leaving girls camp I got a phone call from Zach telling me that there was a huge storm in Holland and that there was water over all the roads. At first I thought he was just exaggerating but as we drove closer and closer to Holland we got hit with it. It was so bad I could barely see to drive. Eventually it passed and we continued home. We then got a phone call that my Bro in law's power was out and the sump pump doesn't work without power. We then proceeded to call around to see if anyone had a generator and finally found one. As we continued to get closer to my Bro-in-law's house the roads were awful. We weren't sure if we were going to be able to get to their house because of all the rain and some of the roads were under water. We finally made it and found that their basement was taking on water and so we loaded up their 5 kids and took them to our house to stay while the men stayed and moved all the furniture to the upstairs level. This was around midnight on June 19th. Lucky for us my house had power and didn't have any flooding. However these are pictures of my backyard and the lake that made it's home there for a bit. My plants were under water and we had water about 4 feet away from our house. Holland recieved 7 1/2 inches of rain in 2 hours and there was flooding everywhere. Roads were out and some even collapsed and tons of houses flooded. Boy were we lucky!!!