Chesapeake After a Deluge

The last three days has brought plenty of rain. What we thought would be two quick days of rain turned out to be three days. The rain would come in torrents for 30-40 minutes and then pause and then another torrent. I snapped some photos of what our city, Chesapeake VA looks like after the deluge.

This lake is across from the Community College, less then a mile from our house. This lake went up about three feet. In Chesapeake where we are at sea level and are called Tidewater, we typically see the up and down of the tide, but add to that 3 feet of rain water and we have flooding. The road next to the lake was half flooded. People were blasting through the water with their vehicles.

One characteristic of the Tidewater VA is draw bridges, because we have a lot of rivers. The river over flowed and flooded a near by park.

Some cute ducks.

The water of the river coming over the breakwall into the park.

Part of the park, with the draw bridge in the background.

A beautiful river that was swollen.

Psalms 42:1"As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. "

But in the end "But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded" Genesis 8:1.