Well, if you live anywhere between Des Moines, Iowa, and where I am, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, you've been getting pelted with storms. We've had record rainfalls, and massive amounts of flooding.

Things started on Friday, with our first Tornado Warning (one was forming about 4 miles away from me at the airport, and it scared the heck out of me, because I'm a wuss) and severe weather thing... and man, it poured. Then, Saturday, we got hit with so much rain everything started flooding - basements, rivers, roads - and we got two lines of storms that day! And now, today, we had our first one this morning, and now we have another on the way.

Well, luckily, our basement hasn't flooded yet - please send me out some good vibes, though, because we're not done yet, and I *really* don't want my new sewing machines to be flooded out (keeping the industrial overlock in the garage until this all passes due to fear of flooding!), not to mention all the fabrics *shivers at the thought*

While going for a quick run to the fabric store this afternoon, we drove by the park in our area, the one I take all the photo's in, and lo-and-behold, it was blocked off! We were wondering why. Then, going past there again on our way out for dinner, we noticed that there were huge amounts of cars parked everywhere, and even a news van. So, we did like everyone else did and pulled over (with the camera!) and walked down there... no wonder everyone was going down there!

Our nice, happy, cute waterfall was now a huge torrent! The lagoon has overflowed the banks onto the road, and is actually causing chunks of the bridge that I keep getting pictures of (the stone arch one where you can see the waterfall behind it) to erode away. It's very, very dramatic, and I'm happy we went down there. I might again tomorrow, and see about getting more pictures, but for now, here are the results of the wrath of this last storm (pasted from my stock account at ~taeliac-stock)



Holy wow!

There will be a few more pictures, but they're going to be submitted here, on this account, more than likely.

So, keep safe, and be comfortable!


Go show them some





Kakkoi Con : August 1-3 : Minneapolis, MN
^{(attending, panelist) Maybe going, but still unsure}

Geek.Kon : September 27 & 28 : Madison, WI *free convention*
^{(attending, vending, dunno if I get to help with judging again, although I'd love to...)}

DaishoCon : November 21-23 : Stevens Point, WI *new convention*
_{(attending, vending, dunno if anything else at this moment, but updates to come as I get them)}