Motorists trying to get home to Riverside wound through the near western suburbs in an irritated procession Monday. Flooding turned them back on Roosevelt Road in Forest Park; a pond stopped them where 1st Avenue had been in Brookfield.
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A time ago, about 8 years, my mom and dad had a home in Des Plaines, about a block from the Des Plaines River. It went up so fast, and so high, that my mom and I went to the nearby school, to get sand bags.
We were the last house on the block, to get floded, and fortunately, only had 1/2, of our full basement flooded. It could have been worse.
We managed to get anything that we could, upstairs, out of harms way, but, as we looked out of our front door, all we saw was a river.
When everything happened, many years later, with snuami's and Hurricaine Katrina, we realized that we were lucky.
My parents have then passed on, and neither saw the effects of Katrina, but, I know that their hearts would have gone out to the lost, and the survivors.