Flash Floods hit Manhattan

The past couple of weeks it has done nothing but rain. So, the ground finally hit its saturation point and what bad timing, on Wednesday we had 5 more inches of rain (per a friend's rain gauge). The town of Manhattan flooded.

We lucked out, our house sits on a berm about 3 foot above the rest of the neighborhood. The others were not so lucky. Check out the pictures...it will be hard to grasp if you do not know our neighborhood, but I will try and describe location.

This is our streets (Whitetail) intersection with Fairman, this about 5 houses away.

This is looking out towards the main road...no one is getting in or out.


This is from our next store neighbors yard. The neighbor had some work being done in her yard and the water swallowed up the excavator.



As you can see, the water kept rising...


This is a picture from our backyard, which was saturated but not flooded. There is (was) a golf course on the other side of the creek. It was completely underwater.


Honestly, with the streets flooded and our yards flooded, our row of houses looked like an island. Everyone in the neighborhood pulled together and helped out those that needed it. Even nature needed a hand, a frightened fawn was misplaced due to the flooding and came up into the neighborhood, unfortunately the poor thing fell about 5 foot into a window well and could not get out. Nice neighbors and the City of Manhattan lifted her out and dried her off and sent her on her way. No picture of that, I did not want to walk over, the poor thing was frightened and letting out a sad screaming noise, I know I would have been in tears.