Flooding In Pardeeville

If you’ve watched the news lately you know some of the excitement that we’ve been having here in Pardeeville. It all started on Friday. You see our Nephew Ben Sosalla (on Arnie’s side) Graduated on Saturday, so on Friday we running around to helping Lois (Ben’s mom and Arnie’s sister) get ready for the party when we got a call that we needed to pick up more cement block to help hold down the tent that they had rented for the party as it was lifting off the ground and moving. Just a few minutes after that call we got another that a tree branch had fallen on the tent damaging one corner. When we got back we saw the damage and Arnie went right into recovery mode with fixing the tent polls and Arnie’s brother Bruce brought a new tarp so the tent was fixed. Then came Saturday! Pardeeville’s Graduation was set for two O’clock in the afternoon, when we got there they weren’t letting people in the gym due to the tornado warning so we had to stay in the halls, finally after about a half hour they let us in. The principle of the school got up and said that they were going to only hand out diplomas so that we could make sure that we got that done. As he finished saying this the sheriff walked up and broke in saying that everyone needed to evacuate to the halls as a tornado was spotted just five mile form town, so we all evacuated to the halls and waited, about fifteen minutes latter the lights went out leaving the school in the dark. It was about forty-five minutes later that the storm passed and we (Arnie, Oliver & I) were able to leave and go the Lois’s house, which is about three blocks away form the high school. When we got there we were surprised to see the large tent still standing in the driveway, but the two tents that were in the back yard were gone and the tables and chairs were all over the yard. Ben was able to graduate around three O’clock, when the Pardeeville fire department came in with generated powered light so they could light up the gym, the principle used a megaphone to speck but they all got their diplomas. The party was a wet success. However some of Arnie’s cousins’ farms were damaged by the EF2 tornado. Thankfully no one was hurt. Then came Sunday and more rain and then on Monday with Park Lake (which is in the middle of Pardeeville) rising and the two dams stressed the town of Pardeeville was called to help sandbag a man maid canal to relieve Park Lake across Main Street/Hwy 22 to Lower Lake aka Silver Lake (which is where one of the dams goes to). As of today everything was holding, however you can’t get through Pardeeville and to leave my house you have to go through two barricades. What fun!! I hope everyone is doing well and that the water goes down soon.

Katie

The first picture is one of the two dams and the second is a brige down form the dam going under Hwy 22

The Canal Going across Main Street/Hwy 22

High Water on a street in Pardeeville by our church.