The river has crested.

Well the river has crested and as of this morning has dropped four inches. The river broke the previous flood record held from 1917 by just under an inch at a whopping 25.95 feet. Travel is still very complicated due to almost every major highway and interstate being shut down between the Dells and Madison. Our little Baraboo River was able to shut down two interstates and multiple highways in this whole mess. Traffic was being routed up HWY 12 up until this morning when there was a serious accident and now there is a detour of the detour. For my family that is traveling from Madison to Rhinelander this weekend, have fun snaking your way between Madison and Baraboo. I hear it is taking hours. They are watching the dam up river very closely for signs of failure it would be catastrophic for many towns if it went at this point, and unfortunately as of this morning there are more dam failures in the area so more towns are evacuating.

If we can hold off getting any more rain for a while we should be ok. Last Saturday and Sunday we got at least twelve inches total Causing the wash out of Lake Delton in the Dells. then Thursday we got at least another four to five inches in a matter of hours which caused flash flooding in Baraboo and surrounding areas.

I have included pictures of some of the most mild flooding around town and it doesn't even give a good perspective of how bad that is. We are completely avoiding where the major flooding is for obvious reasons. Given we are not as bad as Cedar Rapids is but for Wisconsin this is unbelievable.