From the heavy snow we got this winter melting this spring, to the heavy, heavy rains that started falling in June & again in July it seemed that water was EVERYWHERE. I laughed looking back at Alexa’s baby book & noticed I’d mentioned the flooding of 2008 when the Cedar Rapids area was under water & roads were closed/etc. That seems like nothing compared to the flooding across Iowa this year. Our area was hit with some pretty heavy rainfall in short amounts of time causing a lot of homes to have water in the basement, but I’ll get to that later. Ames, Iowa was also hit with major flooding & there were pictures on the news of our former (& first purchased ‘home’) trailer. Here are some pictures of what our trailer looked like when we bought it:
And here are some of the flooding:
So anyway, our area was also dealt a lot of water…no city flooding like in Ames or anything, but then again we don’t have a couple rivers going through town either. July had such record rainfall that most of the residents of Sioux County were dealing water in their basement & we were no exception. The water table was so high that the water was literally seeping up through the cracks in our foundation! We ended up having to pull up the carpet & vacuum all the water up as it came in & we placed MANY MANY large cattle fans under the carpet to circulate the air. After about 3 weeks of the fans running constantly things were finally bone dry & we felt comfortable returning the basement to its normal condition. It was a stressful and annoying ordeal but it is thankfully (hopefully) over with, for this year at least we hope!
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