Under Water

Bethany cancelled school today as did every other school in Elkhart County.  The rain that started yesterday did not subside and there was flooding all over the area.  Our school system stuck with just a delay although it did get it's share of standing water.  I worked in the morning and was off for the afternoon.  When I got home Meg, Cam and I decided to go to Goshen to see what was really happening.  

The trip over was pretty easy.  We only saw one or two roads with water crossing them.  Meg's friend had told us that Linway Plaza was closed.  We wanted to check and see what that looked like.  I was blown away as we got closer.  All roads in that area were closed.  The Kroger parking lot was completely underwater, enough so that people were canoeing in it later.  The nearby park had also flooded.  The water levels had reached the top of the shelter roof which would have been well over my head.  Meg banned me from saying "Wow!" as that was all I could say after driving by the rain drenched area.

Cam had wanted to go to Hacienda for lunch.  We quickly realized that was out of the question.  We drove to Olympia next, but that was closed as well.  It wasn't flooded, but we found out later in the day that all of Elkhart County was under a state of emergency, so most places had closed.  We settled on Tony's.  We had never eaten there before, but knew that Grandpa and Cal really liked it.  The atmosphere was sketchy, but the food was good.  Since we didn't know what would flood next we drove home after lunch.  Doug had several roads that were closed on his way home.  He left before it got dark, however, so he had no problem navigating the standing water.  I took Cam and Meg to tennis.  We also had no problems with the drive.  By the time that we got home we found out that Meg and Cam had a two hour delay.  None of us were surprised by that.