Before the crest, but right after one of those ever present rainfalls, I caught some rainbows, even hints of a double rainbow, to the south towards the Illinois side.
Do you think this was Mother Nature laughing at us?
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Yesterday, Monday, June 16th, the Mississippi River crested at 14.84 feet in Leclaire, making it the 4th worst flood in recorded history. But we survived, even had a lot of fun. But we have not yet starting cleaning up.
Here are some pictures.
No fire by the river last night.
As you can see, we could still get [...]
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We have backed off the crest a bit and we did not get flooded!! Rain up north is predicted, but they don’t think it will cause the river to go back up much, but then one never knows. We plan on moving the furniture back to the cottage this weekend.
Here are the update photos
Looks like [...]
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Today is crest day, 10.5 feet. But it sure does not look like much from our view. We think they opened the rollers and let it go downstream, but just a guess. Here is the view this evening:
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