Water, Water Everywhere

Between the storms and the rain when is it gonna stop? My parents have tons of water at their house. They have to go the long way around to get to town. My youngest sister got stuck in Chase at her boyfriends. Highway 56 was closed between Lyons and Chase and mom and dad couldn't get in there to pick her up. My parent's had been in town and my sister decided to stay with me. My parents made it back home but the water was still rising. They have also been without power since yesterday morning, along with my grandparents. Their neighbors to the west live right by Cow Creek and had to be evacuated from their home by a tractor. At one point I heard they had 3 feet of water in their house. I'm sure it's more than that now.

My co-worker, Staci couldn't get to work this morning because they closed Hwy 96/14 between Sterling and Lyons. As today went on they closed more roads to the south of us. I heard that several people had to be evacuated by boat from Saxman. They were routing people around through Hutchinson and McPherson to get from Sterling to Lyons and vise versa.

There's about a 30% chance of rain tonight. I hope the water can go down enough for people to get to their local destinations.

Here are some pictures of the rain from my house yesterday evening.

This was the water running down the street.

These pictures were taken at my parents' house. The water was up to the corral at my grandparents'.

This is the most water they have seen in a long time.

My grandma always used to say Water, Water everywhere and not a drop to drink.

There is definately water, water everywhere!