live from beautiful dowtown urbana

i have never seen anything like this in my life. you can't tell from this pic, but the entire street of my dad's house is flooded. there was a huge storm that dropped 3 inches of rain in an hour and with the ground already saturated from the earlier 2 inches, the storm sewers overflowed and now there are cars trapped in the street. there is an SUV with 5 guys standing on it just not even wanting to hop into the water. there was a transformer explosion on the corner that resulted in a fire followed by a series of on-loud pop-off cycles and now there is no power on the street. we are across from the police and fire station so we still have lights powered by their generator but the rest of the street is dark and scary.

i've never experienced this kind of fear, which is a slow creeping worry that heightens as the water rises.