Water you doing this weekend?

That's right, I said water. As in gallons upon gallons, swirling around us, destroying homes and belongings. This is massive flooding like we've not seen in years. This is worse than the '05 flood, and almost as bad as the 1913 flood. Records show that we were only .08 inches away from hitting that record mark. Thankfully, only two deaths were confirmed because of the flooding.



In our area, there was at least 2 feet of water rushing across our road. The retention ponds were filling fast, with no place to go. Across the road is a field, in which those ponds chose to empty. Every weather station around was warning not to drive through rushing water, yet, those who had large trucks chose to drive through, anyway.

And some who didn't have large trucks drove through, also.

We drove to the cul-de-sac that faced the road to watch the idiots who chose to take the risk, and sure enough, a lady in a van comes barrelling through the water like she's the log on a theme park ride. Three quarters of the way through, her van stalls, and won't start back up. Anyone else see that coming?

Johnson and Shelby Counties were the first to issue an emergency, with many others quickly falling in behind them. In Fanklin, the park was completely flooded, and flood waters took the police cars down to the baseball diamonds, leaving them to rest against a fence. US 31 was underwater just south of the Shell station at In-44, and the Johnson Memorial Hospitals first floor had around 2 inches of water streaming through. In Shelby county, all the back roads were flooding out, leaving many stranded from the rest of the world. The hardest hit was even further south. In Bartholomew County, Columbus Regional Hospital had to be evacuated because of rising floodwaters cutting them off from town. The strip on 46 was even deserted, which is usually busy catering to those stopping off from the interstate to grab a bite to eat, or stay at one of the many hotels along that route.

In the town of Prince's lakes, the main dam as you heading into town broke through, covering their park in water, and threatening to overtake Nineveh if any of the connecting dams broke.

You couldn't reach Edinburgh by either US 31 or I-65, both those routes were closed, leaving the town stranded and hoping for a miracle.

Scores of people had to be evacuated from homes in Martinsville, Paragon, Seymour, Columbus, and many more towns. Many lost everything they owned due to not having Flood Insurance, though technically, they weren't in "flood territory."

All this less than 48 hours after damaging tornadoes ripped through southern Johnson County and northern Bartholomew County, putting damage in the millions, and demolishing parts of Camp Atterbury, Indiana's large military base.

Oh, but it's not over yet. More storms are headed this way tonight and tomorrow, and parts of Martinsville were still underwater as of last night. Brace yourself, Indiana, if you don't think it's bad now, it's about to get worse.