Iowa's First Winter Storm

It is a winter wonderland!!!!! This is what I woke up to this morning. The first picture is the view out of my living room window, south of town, you can't see the road leading out of town. The second picture is my Christmas tree that is outside.

New meaning to "it's raining buckets"

Friday afternoon we were blessed with a lovely Midwest summer storm. It was raining buckets- it literally looked like somebody was standing on my roof dumping buckets of water down, kinda like how it looks at the indoor waterparks when the bucket dumps all the water on the kids! You couldn't see it was raining so hard.

After the rain, we took a drive through town. There were lots of trees down & standing water. My uncle has a front yard that is probably at least an acre, it was all down trees, there wasn't a lot of yard showing. The most amazing of all was at Hein Manor, the retirement home about 4 blocks from my house. Hein Manor is the big white house on the right. And then you can see how high the water was, Shawn is out in the middle of the road, & the water is up to his knees.