Our Sleepy Hollow home is located in Crawford County and our mailing address is Gays Mills. The county was hit hard with flooding and reports say that 80% of the roads in the county have been compromised. We just received word from a friend today that he was in the area and drove up to our house. He reports that the driveway is fine and there's no evidence of flooding or damage at our house. Good news.
Steve and I are leaving tomorrow afternoon after work to spend a couple days at the Hollow. I am very concerned about our neighbors who live down the road from us in a floodplain.
I will keep you posted.
here is an article I copied off MSNBC;
Gays Mills is located in the Kickapoo Valley and is just one of the many areas that was hit hard by rain this weekend. As a result, the town is now flooded by the overflowing Kickapoo River.
GAYS MILLS - Gays Mills is located in the Kickapoo Valley and is just one of the many areas that was hit hard by rain this weekend. As a result, the town is now flooded by the overflowing Kickapoo River. Homes in Gays Mills are surrounded by water. Basements are flooded and businesses are ruined. This town was evacuated Sunday and people were rushed from their homes. Many Gays Mills residents spent the night with friends and relatives, some at a high school a few miles away. TODAY’S TMJ 4 talked with Kathy Irwin who was reunited with her pet cocker spaniel just a short time ago. “I didn’t sleep last night. I just kept crying that they were in there by themselves. Nowhere to go to the bathroom, nothing to eat. I didn’t know if there’s sewer water running through the house. Just kind of terrifying. You just don’t know what’s going on,” Irwin said. Local volunteer responders are requiring people to wear life vests when they go to their houses. There is concern about sewage in this murky water. We smelled gas from mangled oil-fire furnaces tossed around by the flood waters. “It’s devastating, it’s devastating. A lot of people wont’ come back I’m afraid. It’s hard on a little town,” Irwin said. Governor Doyle is touring damage in Gays Mills now. He told TODAY’S TMJ 4 what the state will do next. “Our first priority is making sure everyone's safe and accounted for. Then we're going to have to make sure just the basic infrastructure is safe. Then, help people get their lives back together," Doyle said. There are bridges that will have to be evaluated and possibly rebuilt. Mud slides will have to be cleared from roads, and the governor says people here will likely qualify for federal disaster relief money. “When we have a better handle on what the actual damages are, then we make the application to the federal government for relief. That will still be some days away,” Doyle said. The National Guard is on stand-by right now. Most of the recovery efforts are being handled by local volunteers.
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