Flood Pictures Legend:

This file describes the pictures you are looking
at. They are in numercial and therefore more or
less chronological order. The first was taken at
about 6:30 the morning of the flood. The last
was taken about two or three days later.

There was a lot more to take pictures of, but I
ran out of memory and power.

That said, here are the descriptions.

Most of these were taken at the highest 
resolution my digital camera could support--1.2 
Megapixels on its highest quality setting. I have
 recompressed most of the files, but some are untouched originals.


2254 - The first picture taken about 6:30 in the
       morning. The water was about two feet
       deep.
2255 - Later that morning, we decided to find out
       how deep the water in the street was.
2256 - more of the same #2255
2257 - still more of the same
2258 - Just to give you an idea how much water
       was actually around...facing east-west.
2259 - more of my younger brother in the kayak
2260 - Finally a good look inside the basement.
       I took out a window screen and managed
       to finagle the window open. Then I leaned
       in and snapped this picture.
2261 - Looking at my desk. You can see what the 
       printer did when the flood hit the
       computer.
2262 - The first and rather pathetic attempt
       at draining the street.
2263 - Looking at our two borrowed sump pumps
2264 - more sump pumps
2265 - Looking at some of the flotsam as it
       moved about the basement. Oddly enough
       there did seem to be something of a "flow"
       to the flood water. I would have thought
       that it would stand still.
2266 - Our pumps were moving water, but there
       was just too much to get rid of. We could
       not even keep up with the speed that the
       water was coming in.
2267 - Looking at how far north the water came
       up.
2268 - Looking south from the north.
2269 - The power was off to our house so we
       borrowed electricity from the neighbors so
       as to run our pumps. You can also see the
       water we'd pumped out pooling in the
       driveway. While the east-west street
       in this picture appears dry, people here
       had flooding as well.
2270 - More looking at the flooded street
2271 - After a while, my younger brother and I
       (and his friend) got bored and put the
       kayak in the basement! This was quite an
       orchestration. Call us crazy, but we all
       wanted to know what the other rooms in
       our basement looked like full of water. We
       were also looking for other flotsam.
2272 - My brother kayaking the mighty Basement
2273 - More kayaking--trying to get past an
       obstacle.
2274 - Some of the neighbors pumping gear. They
       had better luck than we did...
2275 - A sewer truck equipped with a TV camera
2276 - View of the long pump hose from the small
       red trash pump to a working sewer on
       another street
2277 - Finally! A real pumper! When this fire
       truck came in and started pumping that was
       the first sign of any decrease in the
       amount of water. This was the first sign
       of any progress.
2278 - Another attempt at being funny during a
       very trying time.