Flooding in Norwalk

A bit of flooding in Norwalk, while Mom's out of town with Trish and the kids. From an email from Lyndsey:

We received 6 inches of rain last night, and are supposed to get about the same tonight and into tomorrow morning. Most of the roads into town are closed except the Linwood Bridge, and it has been taking 45 minutes to an hour to get across it. By the way the picture I sent you is of [the Linwood Street bridge crossing over] Water Street. There is some concern about the dam at the reservoir breaking tonight with all the extra water. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem we will have our ark built in time.

Trish also sent along a note after calling Chris and Lyndsey, with more details.

The local news station has [or had] footage they were shooting 8 houses up the street from where Granny lives. She was asked to evacuate her house last night [the 21st], but chose to stay.

The weather man is calling for more rain tonight (another 8 - 10 inches). Norwalk officials are concerned about the dam on the reservoir breaking. Back in 1969, Norwalk had 8 inches of rain in 3 hours and the dam broke. Yesterday they had the same amount of rain in the same amount of time and the dam held. They are concerned about the next major rainfall.

Mom spoke to Christopher tonight [6/22]. He said that moms basement is flooded to the second step, about 2 feet deep. The water in her basement is sewer water. Whenever Norwalk gets a lot of rain, fast, the sewage backs up into her basement. The bigger problem is that her pilots where all under water and the house was full of natural gas. Chris got the gas shut off and is waiting until after the next 8-10 inches of rain fall to begin bleaching down mom's basement.

We both have mixed feelings about being in New Mexico. If she were home, she could have saved some of the things in the basement that now have to be thrown out.

Among other things, Mom had quite a stash of soda, mostly in cans. This picture shows what 384 cans look like, all on one table. The message Chris sent with the picture said something like "So much for an inheritance." No word yet on whether they'll try to clean the cans off and drink them anyway. I mean, the contents are still sterile, right? Should be able to clean metal pretty easy...