Tue Jul 11 13:01 EDT 2023
Tue Jul 11 13:03 EDT 2023
When I went down to take the previous pictures, I was able to skirt the water along the edge of the sidewalk. When I came back up less than five minutes later, there was an inch of water over the sidewalk, welling up through the storm drain.
Tue Jul 11 13:29 EDT 2023
Twenty minutes later, there was water across the road.
Tue Jul 11 14:57 EDT 2023
Tue Jul 11 18:44 EDT 2023
Water still slowly rising. Note that the half-submerged traffic cone is the one that was at the edge of the water in the previous picture.
Tue Jul 11 18:46 EDT 2023
The corner from the other direction. I couldn't find a good vantage point that showed how far down 7 the flooding went. By this point it was well into the parking lot of the restaurant.
Tue Jul 11 19:34 EDT 2023
This was not quite the high-water mark; around midnight it was up about another sidewalk section, into the edge of that lowest driveway, but by then it was too dark for good pictures.
Tue Jul 11 19:46 EDT 2023
The intersection from further north on 7. I had to go the long way around the block to get there because the water was too deep at the bottom of the hill.
Tue Jul 11 19:51 EDT 2023
Tue Jul 11 19:52 EDT 2023
Tue Jul 11 19:54 EDT 2023
Tue Jul 12 11:56 EDT 2023
By noon the next day the water had mostly gone down and the debris had been cleared out of the roadway. The road was wet, but passable.
Tue Jul 12 12:06 – 12:08 EDT 2023
The park was still partly flooded, though, and full of debris. Including part of a boat, some of it shoved up into a pile to get it out of the road.
Tue Jul 12 19:38 EDT 2023
By evening, the river was back in its banks, though still running high and fast. There were a bunch of these orange buoys left around, which I think were part of the string marking the danger zone above the dam on Arrowhead Lake.
Tue Jul 12 19:40 EDT 2023
The benches for these picnic tables are concrete, and about two inches thick, five feet long, and a foot wide. I'm pretty sure this table had both benches before the flood. The other one is nowhere in evidence now.
This is where we usually hold fighter practice.
Tue Jul 12 19:41 EDT 2023
I don't know where the tire came from.
Tue Jul 12 19:43 EDT 2023
... or the squash.
Tue Jul 12 19:55 EDT 2023
I couldn't get to a good vantage point to take pictures of the dam itself when the flooding was ongoing. When I want around to get the pictures from the other side of the flooding, there was brown water spilling through the openings at the top of the dam, and it was running high and wild enough that it was occasionally splashing up onto the roadway on the bridge.
Tue Jul 12 19:57 EDT 2023
Tue Jul 12 20:00 EDT 2023
Tue Jul 12 20:01 EDT 2023
Tue Jul 12 20:03 EDT 2023
The orange buoy in its natural habitat.