WOW!!!
That is about all I can say about last night's weather!!!!!
The day was pretty much a normal day. We went out in the morning because they were calling for HIGH humidex in the afternoon, which we did get. On the news at supper time they said we were in a severe thunderstorm watch and that there had been sightings of tornados around the Sask. border. Gary and I had a couple of errands to do so we headed out right after we ate. Went to Walmart to pick up a couple of things and when we came out it was getting dark. We went to Safeway to get groceries and when we came out it was pitch black out and pouring rain. We drove home carefully as all the intersections were flooded! When we got home we saw that the storm drains just were not keeping up and the water was backing up onto our lawn. I ran into the house and Gary went and cleared away a bunch of silt and leaves etc from the drain so they could run better.
Crystal and I were keeping a close eye on the basement as we knew that if things didn't let up we would have water down there. Sure enough we saw that it was starting to come in. Gary got the shop vac going and I had the carpet cleaner and we were sucking up water as fast as we could. It just didn't seem like we were getting ahead at all, so Crystal called a neighbour and he brought his down and helped out for a bit and then he left Crystal sucking water and he went and cleared drains again. After a long while we could see that maybe we were getting a bit ahead of the water. Crystal ran and looked and said the rain was letting up a wee bit. With Gary and I sucking up water in the workshop and Crystal working in the den, we were able to keep the carpet from getting too wet. When it was all over we had in excess of 4 inches of rain in approx 2 1/2 - 3 hours, winds clocked at 100 km/h! We started sucking up water at about 8 p.m. and it was after 11 before we were done. Sometime through the evening, Gary phoned daycare parents and let them know that I would be closed till at least noon today. I ended up just closing the whole day.
Through everything I was feeling angry, mad and sad that this was happening, and that we were getting this water in our basement etc etc etc. Then on the news at noon today they showed pictured of some other houses in Brandon and surrounding area. Waist high water in their basements, everything just floating around in the water, pure devastation. So I guess no matter how bad you think you have it, someone always has it worse off. We were very lucky to be able to stay ahead of the water and it didn't do any major damages!
I just hope that there isn't any major rains in our near future as the ground is just saturated and there is no place for it to go at all!
The day was pretty much a normal day. We went out in the morning because they were calling for HIGH humidex in the afternoon, which we did get. On the news at supper time they said we were in a severe thunderstorm watch and that there had been sightings of tornados around the Sask. border. Gary and I had a couple of errands to do so we headed out right after we ate. Went to Walmart to pick up a couple of things and when we came out it was getting dark. We went to Safeway to get groceries and when we came out it was pitch black out and pouring rain. We drove home carefully as all the intersections were flooded! When we got home we saw that the storm drains just were not keeping up and the water was backing up onto our lawn. I ran into the house and Gary went and cleared away a bunch of silt and leaves etc from the drain so they could run better.
Crystal and I were keeping a close eye on the basement as we knew that if things didn't let up we would have water down there. Sure enough we saw that it was starting to come in. Gary got the shop vac going and I had the carpet cleaner and we were sucking up water as fast as we could. It just didn't seem like we were getting ahead at all, so Crystal called a neighbour and he brought his down and helped out for a bit and then he left Crystal sucking water and he went and cleared drains again. After a long while we could see that maybe we were getting a bit ahead of the water. Crystal ran and looked and said the rain was letting up a wee bit. With Gary and I sucking up water in the workshop and Crystal working in the den, we were able to keep the carpet from getting too wet. When it was all over we had in excess of 4 inches of rain in approx 2 1/2 - 3 hours, winds clocked at 100 km/h! We started sucking up water at about 8 p.m. and it was after 11 before we were done. Sometime through the evening, Gary phoned daycare parents and let them know that I would be closed till at least noon today. I ended up just closing the whole day.
Through everything I was feeling angry, mad and sad that this was happening, and that we were getting this water in our basement etc etc etc. Then on the news at noon today they showed pictured of some other houses in Brandon and surrounding area. Waist high water in their basements, everything just floating around in the water, pure devastation. So I guess no matter how bad you think you have it, someone always has it worse off. We were very lucky to be able to stay ahead of the water and it didn't do any major damages!
I just hope that there isn't any major rains in our near future as the ground is just saturated and there is no place for it to go at all!
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