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Originally Posted by flatbutt
Heck yeah. Did you have any notice that the flood was imminent? Or was it just on you?
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It had been raining cats and dogs so all the creeks were full. The city opened the flood gates on two lakes and the creeks overflowed and the small feeder creeks started running backwards, one of them into my neighborhood.
I came home after a shopping trip and there was no abnormal water over any of the roadways.
As soon as I came into the house I received a mandatory evacuation order for my neighborhood. I got back in the car and the only road in/out was flooded (see above image). It went from nothing to flooded in about 10 minutes. City brought in the front end loader and took us to a convenience store parking lot that is about a half mile away and dumped us off. I called a cab and got a room at a hotel for 2 nights.