Kraorh ([info]kraorh) wrote in [info]madisonwi,
@ 2006-07-27 12:49:00
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Current mood: amused
Current music:Swervedriver - Mezcal Head

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The same guys I saw canoeing in the flooded street in front of the apartment building where I live were back today, during the massive storm we had. I happened to have my camera handy. If it only takes a little bit of rain to make this possible, I'm very glad that I live on the third floor.


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[info]alyska
2006-07-27 05:57 pm UTC (link)
we just finished fishing five people (and a toddler) out of a sailboat that capsized in front of our office by the union.

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[info]kraorh
2006-07-27 06:03 pm UTC (link)
Ouch. See, they should have tried canoeing instead. Then capsizing isn't such a big deal.

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[info]alyska
2006-07-27 06:13 pm UTC (link)
there are also three canoes that were torn off their mooring at the union and are floating out there right now. hoofers just got the sailboat righted, and is towing it in while they bail it out. they'll probably go after the canoes next.

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5 ppl & a toddler
[info]gregory07
2006-07-27 07:52 pm UTC (link)
i'm pretty sure that toddlers are people, at least under the current administration.

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Re: 5 ppl & a toddler
[info]alyska
2006-07-27 07:53 pm UTC (link)
sorry, that should read five people including a toddler.

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[info]brucix
2006-07-27 05:59 pm UTC (link)
What street is this?

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[info]kraorh
2006-07-27 06:01 pm UTC (link)
East Johnson. Oh, and on the radio, they just mentioned that the traffic lights have lost power here too.

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[info]annearchy
2006-07-27 06:11 pm UTC (link)
How far east?

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[info]kraorh
2006-07-27 06:14 pm UTC (link)
I'm not sure where the outage starts, but I think it goes all the way to Ingersoll. The photo you see there is of Pinkus McBride, if that helps.

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[info]annearchy
2006-07-27 06:57 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, I'm actually not too far from there now. And my car is in that city ramp really close to there *headdesk*

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[info]kraorh
2006-07-27 07:07 pm UTC (link)
For what it's worth, the water vanished almost as soon as the rain stopped. I've never heard of the ramp on Butler (is that where you are?) flooding...

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[info]annearchy
2006-07-27 07:08 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, that's where I'm parked -- on the second lowest level, but up near Mifflin Street, near the top of the hill.

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[info]kraorh
2006-07-27 07:57 pm UTC (link)
See, I'd worry more if you were on the very lowest level. Second lowest is probably okay.

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[info]annearchy
2006-07-27 11:37 pm UTC (link)
It was mostly dry. I think some rain seeped in from the street-level stairwell at the corner of N. Webster and W. Mifflin, but otherwise, it was good.

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[info]leathermines
2006-07-27 06:09 pm UTC (link)
At least they are going the right way on a one way street.

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[info]alyska
2006-07-27 06:25 pm UTC (link)
...which is more than i can say fr some of the cars around here. *grins*

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[info]lacherig
2006-07-27 10:34 pm UTC (link)
hahaha

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[info]fact_or_opinion
2006-07-27 06:37 pm UTC (link)
Hey! Swervedriver. I thought I was the only person that liked them. And Mezcal Head is a great album, too.

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[info]omgangiepants
2006-07-27 07:13 pm UTC (link)
That is disgusting. :(

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[info]kissmeimjewish
2006-07-27 07:56 pm UTC (link)
any more pics?!

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[info]jerasue
2006-07-27 09:56 pm UTC (link)
I have a couple of outside of regent liquor, but they aren't as amusing as yours.
I have to get home from work to upload them.

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[info]volmarr
2006-07-27 10:29 pm UTC (link)
Reminds me of New Orleans, it would flood like this and then an hour later all the water was pumped out and gone.

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[info]annearchy
2006-07-27 11:38 pm UTC (link)
We used to have wonderful pumps in New Orleans.

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[info]volmarr
2006-07-27 11:59 pm UTC (link)
Are they dead now? :(

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[info]annearchy
2006-07-28 12:20 am UTC (link)
I think Katrina killed most of them :(

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[info]volmarr
2006-07-28 12:24 am UTC (link)
My father, who lives in IL, and is a mechanical engineer and designs pumps as his job, once visited New Orleans for work. He was given a tour of some of the pumps there. He told me a lot of them are really old fashioned and made of wood.

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[info]annearchy
2006-07-28 01:58 am UTC (link)
That wouldn't surprise me at all.

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[info]ringmaster_j
2006-07-28 04:19 am UTC (link)
Hhahahaa. I was driving up Johnson St. when the storm hit. I saw those guys too! Way to go on photographing it!

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[info]gayalithiel
2006-07-28 11:44 am UTC (link)
I was trying to leave the UW Hospital when all that was going on. Nothing like heading down a one way street and being greeted by an impassable river. So glad we took the van instead of the car. I don't think I've ever seen anything like it!

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