A Flood

Seriously. A flood. Our town on a hill flooded today. Never thought that would happen. I was able to download pictures that were online to capture just how much water there was.
This is the Target parking lot,




Down the hill, manhole covers blew off.




This isn't far from Target. It's a car dealership. Can you see the cars for sale?




Here's an arial view of the mall area. The store in the upper right with the light colored roof is Target.




This is the parking lot of the clinic I used to work at. The blue car is a Prius; on of the physicians owns it. The cement wall that you can see the top of is about 4-5 feet tall. Lake Superior is the water on the very left side, mid-picture.




Here's how brown the lake and harbor were after the storm. It's
Usually a beautiful shade of blue.




We are lucky at our house. We had a little seepage in the basement, under the front steps. It's a cement bottom storage area, and we had plastic tubs on the floor. So the only damage was some time on my part, moving stuff out so the floor could dry. Just a half mile away, my best friend's house has several inches of water in the basement. The power, and damage, of the water was unbelievable.