Rain, Rain, Go Away

It was an interesting night last evening as the earth began to open, and the seas... err, wait, that was the OTHER flood.

Anyway, you may have seen Milwaukee on the national news today as we got a whole lot of rain in a little bit of time.  It was quite the spectacle.  The Chateau Dusseau, Milwaukee location, got about a foot of water in the basement and when the busses drove by the breakers (not an exageration) hit the second step of the front door. 

Cathy has been busy cleaning up today as I went to school to see how the 4 ft. of water in the elevator shaft was doing.  Fun times and more rain tonight they say.  Here are a couple of pictures.

The Chateau... flooded.

Looking toward the backyard.

The basement, early on.

Sherman Blvd.

The neighbors van...

Looking south on Sherman Blvd.

Lots of stalled cars, the breakers came from the busses.

Looking south again on Sherman Blvd.

Yes, that is the Fire Dept. with a boat behind their truck.

All Is Good

Well, I made the jump to the new iPhone 4 this past week. I'm happy to report that I haven't had any problems with the "death grip" or anything else. The major good thing was that when I synced it with my old one, all the icons for apps that weren't standard went away. When I resynced them I hadn't lost any data from games I had played in the past. You can not imagine the anger if I would have lost that high Yahtzee score or my Sailboat Pro score... some heads would have rolled. BUT, all is good.

Videos of Owen

Here are a couple videos of Owen from TX.  He actually did eat the pancake.

TX 2010

I thought tonight that it would be a good night for a post... I know its been a while, but I have been a little busy.  Next week finishes up a class that puts me at 1/4 of the way finished with my PhD course work.  No need for congratulations (not that anyone was going to do that), but that still puts me at t-minus 5 years.

We spent a week in TX visiting Cathy's dad a few weeks ago.  Here are a few pictures from the trip which was highlighted by some fishing, tubing, and a jet ski. 

Liam caught one!

Playing DS

Swimming

A big, ugly catfish.

The yearly cowboy picture.

On the boat...

With Grandpa