The Big Flood of 2010

The morning Chesney and I left for the airport to head to California, we were forced to take a detour due to flooding across highway 52 north of Pine Island. The river through Pine Island was rising and flooding in the town was surely inevitable. By afternoon the river could no longer be contained and came pouring over its banks into our little town and many little towns around us. Logan was stuck at the school along with many other children when the busses could no longer get out and Duey worked his magic, looked up any road that didn't cross the Zumbro River and bada-bing 3 hours later made it to town to pick up our son (normally a 1 mile drive). It was pretty hard to be in California not being able to do anything but it all worked out. Duey picked up Logan who was at the time at his teachers home all comfy and cosy.
Duey got a few pics of the flooding

Here is the road we normally take to get into town
The water went over the banks of the river, across the road and flooded the school sports fields

Downtown Pine Island

Later that day- the water over the road to our house was gushing even more

The next day after the water had slowed down a bit you could see the edge of the road had been washed away

The sport fields, the debre was all over the fences and they were bending from the weight of it.

The bridge to our house, this picture was taken on Friday but on Thursday the water came just under the bridge, about 10 feet above the normal level.

And this poor little guy was lost. I think with the flooding this little snapping turtle got turned around and ended up under my car on Wednesday. He is huge, he's about 1 1/2 feet long and very snappy, watch your fingers. We put him in a bucket and took him down to the river and he was happy as could be to swim away to his home.

Duey and my brother, Jeff spent Saturday helping one of our neighbors tear out sheetrock and carpet from his basement after it was flooded. We, luckily had no water in our house and were happy to be able to help others instead.