I've been trying to stay away from posting general local news on our personal site, but, this event is too important not to post.
The remnants of hurricane Ike passed through Kalamazoo over the weekend and resulted in 72 hours of non-stop rain and dropped between 7 - 10 inches into an already saturated basin. The result has been massive flooding of low lying areas and evacuations of large portions of downtown.
A house on Lake street sits just above the water level, but most of the basements are already full of water and power has been cut to the area so the chance of electrical fire could be minimized.
Three life jackets are wrapped around a tree in defiance of the rising water levels.
The aptly named "Water Street" is submerged due to flooding.
The crosswalk at Burdick and Crosstown under six inches of water.
A defiant Jeep plows through flooded Burdick Street.
The Kalamazoo City buildings are surrounded by flooding. The jail had to be evacuated and many offices closed down due to the flooding.
This house on Jackson Court is completely flooded.
Jackson Court
A Southwesterly view of Crosstown Parkway at Portage Road
A sign in the parking lot of National City Bank on Westnedge indicates where customers should park their vehicles.
A park bench surrounded by flood waters is no longer an accommodating rest spot on Westnedge Ave.
A North East view of Crosstown Parkway from Westnedge Ave
A tow truck pulls a flooded vehicle from the flood waters on Vine Street at Crosstown Parkway with Bronson Hospital in the background.
An ironic shot of Gordon Water surrounded by flood waters.
A Comstock park on the Kalamazoo river saw rising flood waters as a dam release at 5:00pm drove water levels even higher.
2 comments:
This is horrible, and yet we heard nothing in the news here. How, pray tell, were you able to tool around and get these shots w/o getting your car stuck? How was your area affected?
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D
Portage was ok to say the least. OUr topology is higher than that of the city of Kalamazoo and all our runoff drains towards the Portage Creek which in turn flows from Portage through Kalamazoo and into the Kalamazoo river after merging with the Arcadia Creek.
The Portage Creed did swell on Sunday during the heavy rains, but returned to normal levels by Monday.
Large parts of the city are blocked off and closed, but you can still access them by walking through them. So, I did a fair amount of driving to a place and walking a mile or so to snap a shot (or in some places I was able to take the shot right from where I was parked).
jp
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