Posted 2008-09-14 10:31 AM (#91470) Subject: Drowning in IL
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Posts: 270 Location: Roanoke IL
I know it's nothing compared to texas, but I looked at the radar and the whole state of IL is covered in rain. Everything is a bog. Of course, this is when I discovered that I have a leak in my horse trailer roof. Now I have damage to the ceiling over the bunk.
I was up at 1am after work last night putting tarps and anything I could find over the top of the trailer to try to deflect some of the rain. Our basement is filling with water despite the sump pumps. I just keep telling myself, that I should count my blessings, I can't imagine what all those poor Texans are going through right now.
I had a trail ride planned for this weekend, and I moved heaven and earth to get a 3 day weekend for it. Now I'll have to float there in an ark! That is ....if the park isn't closed
Posted 2008-09-14 1:03 PM (#91475 - in reply to #91470) Subject: RE: Drowning in IL
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Posts: 58 Location: Foley, MO
We got dumped on here in East Central Missouri as well. Soaked and lots of flooding. I snuck in a ride on Jake the TWH , but a road ride as our State Park trailhead is flooded by the Cuivre River and tributaries. Not much into white water riding.
Posted 2008-09-17 2:23 PM (#91655 - in reply to #91470) Subject: RE: Drowning in IL
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Posts: 316 Location: Illinois
I'm lucky, I'm on high ground and for once am glad I don't have a basement. ;) It's not supposed to rain all week, so hopefully you will be able to make your trip this coming weekend.
The barn I board at faired well, the water from the creek got close to the barns and their garage, but no further. However their son (who's not a kid by a long way btw, he's got a kid that is now a fireman if that gives you any idea) thought 10 inches of rain would make it fun to take the canoe out and about the flooded pastures and check out the creek. He's the last story in the section. He's so bloody lucky. Luckier that it was dark and no one thought to try to get some pictures. ;)
Posted 2008-09-17 5:30 PM (#91670 - in reply to #91470) Subject: RE: Drowning in IL
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Posts: 303 Location: Grapeland, Texas
I think some of ya'll got more rain than a lot of us here did. I was in the big middle of it and only got 3 or 4 inches. I think they said Ike ran into a front and that's was causing more rain up there. Of course people on the coast got so much water from the storm surge.
Posted 2008-09-18 4:12 PM (#91737 - in reply to #91470) Subject: RE: Drowning in IL
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Posts: 399 Location: Ottawa, Illinois 61350
We had 16 cow calf pairs swept down a very fast and flooded creek in northern Illinois. The water was 2' from the bottom of the bridge they went under. Unbeleivably, these South Dakota bred black 2 yr. old heifers and there 600 pound calves all came thru it without a scrape. We found them on a "small island" sticking out of the flood waters later in the day. We were ecstatic as we had invested over 20K in these young moms.
Posted 2008-09-18 4:33 PM (#91739 - in reply to #91470) Subject: RE: Drowning in IL
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Posts: 303 Location: Grapeland, Texas
Wow, you were lucky, someone is watching over those cows. I heard today that a lot of cattle are dieing on the coast from drinking salt water, since that's all there is. A lot of cattle and horses drowned too. I hate to even think about it.
Posted 2008-09-19 6:03 PM (#91789 - in reply to #91470) Subject: RE: Drowning in IL
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Posts: 8
Location: Palestine, TX
I read about one horse here down on the coast that sought shelter in a barn, barn filled with water, and the horse drowned in there. Such sad stories. At least the people were allowed to take their pets with them on the evacuation buses unlike New Orleans.
Drowning in IL
He's so bloody lucky. Luckier that it was dark and no one thought to try to get some pictures. ;)
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