I cannot believe how much it rained today! This morning when I woke up, the river was already over the bulkhead! Luckily our house is set back a ways away from the river, but the water completely covered the still dock and had the floating dock up so high that instead of the ramp sloping down to the floater, it was sloping upwards! The water was so high that the boats were actually floating off of the boat lifts and had to be tied up so they would not float away. We also saw a boat floating down the river; it must have gotten loose with the high winds. Among the debris was also a yellow paddle. The worst part of the storm (for me) was the flooding on this one part of the road--the curve right before Crowley's Landing--the river spills over onto the road so that when it was almost high tide (and I was coming home) there was about 2 feet of water...I didn't know what to do, so I drove through it. I swear I had a miniature panic attack. My car almost stalled twice! I can still feel the tension just thinking about it. Next time I will definately take the road that goes around it--even though it is 8 miles out of the way. We were very lucky that all we had was some flooding and some wayward ships. They were closing down major highways to the islands, like Atlantic City and Margate, because the roads were too flooded. If I would have been at work in the evening, I would have been stuck there. I would think the roads would be open by now since the tide went out, but there will be another really high "high tide" tonight (3AM) and tomorrow.

I found it slightly comical that when I woke up this morning and saw the flooding outside, my first thought was to get the camera because this would make a great scrapbook page! But then reason over took me and I went to the bathroom washed up and had breakfast. But by the time I got out to take pictures the tide had started to go out :( lucky for me when I came home tonight there was even worse flooding for me to take pictures of...I can laugh about it because no one was hurt and so far there hasn't been any property damage (for us).

Here is a pic I took for the May Photo hunt yesterday 5/11 before the flooding. In the top of the first pic you can see two posts, in the bottom pic there are two round things barely sticking out of the water in the middle of the pic: those are the same posts!