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Well, we had an earthquake not too long ago, then the hurricane. Now flooding. Today is a mess. I know it is doing more damage around here than either of the other two. I have a video of the street flooded, but I only have it on Facebook. I am trying to figure out how I can post it from there. I deleted it from the camera.  :darn:

Here are a couple of photos. Think my son's Little League game will be cancelled on Saturday?
This pressbox is about 5 or 6 feet off of the ground. The concession stand and two more fields are in the background.

You can see the top of a dugout here and the backstop. Looks like the backstop is "out of whack".

This is a third, different field. This view is looking from above and behind the third base line across the field.

And yes, schools are closed tomorrow.

Wow Dan - looks pretty bad.
How is your house? Are you above the flood waters?

Wow!  I hope you and your family are safe and doing ok.  You guys got flooding and we got the huge fires here in the Austin area, the biggest being the one at Bastrop.  I feel so badly for those people that have lost homes in all areas, here and there.  I believe they say 1600 homes have been destroyed in Bastrop from this fire.  Unbelieveable.  If we don't get some rain soon, I think we're all going to dry up and blow away.

Incredible!  Hope you and the family are safe from the rising water.  We have had a lot of rain in Michigan this year but nothing like that.

 :drinking: Tim :drinking:

WOW!!  Dan you and your family be safe  :oh:.  and kntreyn you be safe also   :oh:.
 I sold my my orange crush to a gentleman that lives in the Austin area hope he and his family and the crush slider are doing well :oh:

Wow Dan.. We have had tremendous flooding here as well, but luckily nothing real close to my house. A few towns away from me are under water and a few towns close to work are under water as well. In the past 2 weeks, I think our area has had almost 16" of rain. It was a weird sight to see the sun for a few hours yesterday.

Last I had heard we had had about 8" of rain yesterday. We were already saturated from the rest of this week and last weekend. Our house is dry. A few of my neighbors have flooded basements. Parts of the Beltway were closed last night due to flooding and I guess traffic was a mess. Luckily I only live 1.5 from work and got home before the deluge in the late afternoon. My wife went to the gym at the rec center and by the time she tried to come back the road was closed and she had to hold out at a friend's house. I guess people are trying to get to work and finding they can't find ways around. I work for the school system, so I'm home. I don't have any clean up, but I'll probably help the neighbors and with the ball fields when they need it.

The fires look awful. I can't believe how hot and dry it's been in TX.

Water has receeded from the LL fields. The dugouts on the left are messed up. You can see an outfield fence and foul pole in the center of the picture that are partially down. Beyond that, if you know where to look, is a twisted, partially fallen backstop.

Holy crap, Dan!  Up here in northeastern MD (Harford County), parts of Havre de Grace were evacuated due to flooding.  Some schools were closed, and there were some road closures.  Fortunately, I live in a higher elevation and we didn't have any issues.

This is inside Hershey Park

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Looks like a chocolate river?  :oops:

Haha, I was rather thinking the same thing!!

Wow..That is amazing...

Can you imagine being their insurance company? Is FEMA going to help them out too?

We went over to the fields earlier this evening to see what we could help with at the beginning of clean up. I ended up helping to clean out cans of pop from a garage/shed floor and I went over to the concession stand. It's a mess. You can see how high the water was in a picture I posted earlier. The water line was about 7' up. Everything inside has to be thrown. They just took a food delivery yesterday. The water pushed over a huge refrigerator and two large Coke coolers. Mud all over.

There are 5 fields at the park. You can see how the outfield fence collected debris. The concession stand is in the background. The water line is on the brick, at the level of the hanging plants.

This is the inside of the concession stand and another photo that shows where the water left a picnic table...on top of a dugout. I'd say the table was moved about 800 to 1000 feet from where it sat.

The 2nd pic is a picture of one of the backstops which is now a twisted mess. The dugout is on the right. I no longer has a roof.
The 1st pic is a different field.

The 2nd picture shows picnic tables in the trees.

There were little fish left in the pools, on the fields, even inside the concession stand.

Unbelieveable the wrath Mother Nature has brought upon us.  I hope all of you will have a quick recovery with as little loss as possible.

Took a look at all the photos that were on Facebook of the fields, you guys got hit hard Dan.  We're fortunate to have a sump system in our house, all the neighbors were bailing out with buckets yesterday.  Walked past one of the brand new houses the street over today...they tore down and rebuilt a giant place...sold for $1.2M two months ago.  Had four trucks from carpet repair places out front, with two hoses of sump pumps clearing out the house, with all the new carpet out in the yard ruined. 

Let me know if you need a hand with those fields, whether its something manual or mechanical, I can give what I can to help out.