Damage Reports from 10/4/2005 Thunderstorm
On 10/5/05 I sent out the following e-mail:
The rain gauge at Roseville city hall recorded 6 inches of rain between last light and 7 AM this morning with 4 inches of that falling between 8:00 PM and 11:00 PM last night. I'm trying to determine what flooding problems we had now that the city has diverted storm water from Victoria away from our neighborhood as part of the road project last summer. Let me know if you had any flooding damage from water coming over land or if you know how high the water got on the street or your yard.
Here are the replies I got:
I haven’t had a chance to document the high water at our house, but it will be easy to measure because the water washed away the leaves at the base of the hill in our front yard and there is a distinct water line showing. I estimate that water came up 5 feet into our yard. To get an idea of depth, I checked last night at about 10 pm and estimated there was 16 inches of post showing between the top of the water and the bottom of the newspaper tube. The standing water extended from Burich’s past our house to St. Dennis’.
John Lutter 818 Millwood
Dick – A friend drove down Millwood at around 9(?) to bring my daughter home, and the water in front of the castle house was up to mid-passenger door. I’ve copied her on this so she can confirm or correct.
I had standing water in the low part of my back yard to about 6-8 inches – well past my ankles. [I also got water in my playroom, which is the lowest room on the ground level], but my sump pump never activated so I don’t know what that’s about. [I may have inadvertently created a creek bed down my back sidewalk when I put in a flower bed lining the sidewalk, so that issue might be a creation of [mine] rather than the deluge – although it has a 2” drain through it which just couldn’t keep up...]
Tammy Pust 813 Millwood
No problem here, Dick.
Pete Kiernan 798 Millwood Ave.
Dick - around our home the water got up above the fire hydrant across the street - highest I've seen it, the fire hydrant disappeared. I do have pictures from a previous occurrence when the water got to about the same height.
Bob Burich 816 Millwood
Hi Dick - the street did flood and water backed up in our yard. No damage for us. I would guess - given where the leaves and markings were - we had a good 2 and a half feet over our back drain. Tammy's back yard was covered. When Dan came home last night, about 10 - 10:30, Millwood was flooded up to about halfway across our lot. That was down from earlier - at our driveway. I didn't take pictures because the kids were nervous about all the lightning. I could see the real estate sign next door had water about 1/3 of the way up the post. My guess is there was about 3 feet of water in the deepest part of the street.
Jerri Freier 815 Millwood
Dick, I don't know how deep the water got last night, but when I got home from a meeting at about 9:15 last night Lake Millwood (as I've come to call it) had the bend in Millwood deep enough that the fire hydrant on the bend was totally submerged. Heavy rains always cause this lake that tends to start at the east edge of our driveway (at 822 Millwood) and runs as far as Burich's driveway (at 816 Millwood). The front lawns on the west side of the street also end up partially under water. This was an unusually heavy storm, but the lake actually extended at least 25' west of my driveway and north past Burich's enough so that Bob had to move one of his cars off the street since that even by 9:00 his wheels were half way under water (at least 12") right by his driveway. I didn't take any pictures because I didn't think they would turn out in the dark. I ended up driving across my front lawn to get up to our garage. This morning there was a collection of flotsum at the high water spots in my driveway and on the street. I assume it is probably true all along the street. In the past the water has been more than waist deep in the middle when this lake has been smaller. My estimate is that the deepest spots were somewhere between 2' and 4' deep.
- Steve Anderson 822 Millwood
Dick, I did not have any flooding in our house
Jody Yungers - 810 Millwood
Hello Dick, We had no flooding damage at our home. Bill noted flooding at the base of Avon and County Rd D.
Mary Zimmer 848 Brenner
We only had about 5 inches of rain. No noted problems. we didn't stay up to observe any water action!
Linnea Tani - 809 Millwood
For the first time in 21 years we had water come up so high in the low lot to our west that it got around our pool and floated the liner all the way around.
Dick Lambert 800 Brenner