{"id":22145,"date":"2013-04-22T16:29:30","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T22:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/?p=22145"},"modified":"2013-04-22T16:29:30","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T22:29:30","slug":"four-lakes-became-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/2013\/four-lakes-became-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Lakes became one."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center>The top of the hill<br \/>\nwas wet during the downpour.<br \/>\nThe bottom flooded.<\/center><\/p>\n<p>There has been a lot of news this week.  I thought I&#8217;d show you a little of our local news.  Here&#8217;s a video. The tall brick building engulfed in the flooded region is The Devonshire\/Westbury building where my Father-in-law spend the last 9 months of his life.  <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cS9UdxoOegQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Lisle evacuated those at the bottom of the hill to Benedictine University which is two block from me, and takes up much of the top of the hill.  The rain really was rather amazing.  I&#8217;m high and dry.  I did not drive to the bottom of the hill to see this live. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a bit worried about my mother&#8217;s lot. She lives in Libertyville, on the banks of the Des Plaines, but is currently on vacation. She travels a lot and has arranged for a neighbor who winters his motor cycle in her garage check; he&#8217;d call if he saw a problem. Or so she tells us. . . (He&#8217;s a nice guy. And really, Mom has 3 people check. )<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m still a bit worried. (Libertyville high school was closed due to flooding on Monday. That school is further north from and the major flooded areas in Libertyville seems to sit between Lake Minear and Butler Lake. Still&#8230;. That dang river!!)<\/p>\n<p>Ahh.. the joy of rising rivers. I experienced these growing up right on the banks of the famously flat Des Plaines. Guess why I live on the top of a hill?   I hope other readers in Illinois are fine. Let me know if you have any particularly dramatic stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top of the hill was wet during the downpour. The bottom flooded. There has been a lot of news this week. I thought I&#8217;d show you a little of our local news. Here&#8217;s a video. The tall brick building engulfed in the flooded region is The Devonshire\/Westbury building where my Father-in-law spend the last &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/2013\/four-lakes-became-one\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Four Lakes became one.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}