The Great Flood of 2008

The weekend of September 13th most of southern Michigan got torrential rainfall from Hurricane Ike. Gary and I were at the campground when the rain started on Friday night and by Saturday morning low lying places were already flooding. We packed up and headed home and heard on the news the following day that we had a total of between 6-10 inches of rain. (It wasn't any better at home either.)

We learned later in the week that the chain of lakes at our campground ended up overflowing the banks and many areas were flooded. Pontoon boats and paddle boats broke loose and started floating around by themselves and several docks were completely underwater, but the damage was minimal and no one got hurt. Thank goodness.

Anyway, here's some pictures to give you some idea how soggy we were!