Sunday, April 21, 2013

Forty days and forty nights...

...but all in one night.

Scenes from the drive up to Peru:

Almost every third field looked like this.

These houses looked like they had moats.
A missing driver found today brings the death toll to two. Thankfully it wasn't like the flooding exactly one hundred years ago; Peru, the town we visited, was one of many central Indiana towns devastated by the great flood of 1913.

7 comments:

fast richard said...

Yeah, I drove through Indiana yesterday. It looked pretty wet.

Frank W. James said...

Don't look for any 'early' corn planting this year, but I think we can safely say the 'drought' is over...

All The Best,
Frank W. James

Old NFO said...

Drought/flood... Pick one... sigh

Fuzzy Curmudgeon said...

It looked materially the same on IN-67 south of Mooresville on Saturday. We saw a couple of houses where you could fish off the back porch, and quite a few RVs and single-wides partially submerged.

Ed said...

Drought, flood... on average, normal conditions.

Anonymous said...

lolwhut? Did the internet correctly report that Peru IN got 6 FEET of rain in three days waybackthen? Crikey.

Windy Wilson said...

Anonymous 11:27, but did the computer models predict it like they predicted the hockey stick?

BTW, isn't Peru near where there's the world's longest stretch of straight railroad track? A professor in college made that claim and also that the rr engineers who traveled that route were always trying to see how fast they could get up to there.