About Fort Atkinson's Sherman Avenue East Riverside

Neighbors don't care about floods, they care about their neighbors.

East Sherman homeowner waits for the rain to stop:Ft. Atkinson, WI: 061208

Volunteers sandbag on East Sherman in Ft. Atkinson, WI:061208

Volunteer sandbagging in the rain on East Sherman in Ft. Atkinson, WI:061208

Volunteers sandbag in the rain on East Sherman in Ft. Atkinson, WI:061208

Volunteers sandbag-over 4,000, bags- on East Sherman in Ft. Atkinson, WI:061208

Filling up the sandbags on East Sherman in Ft. Atkinson, WI.

...and then you have to go check on your place: Rock River Road, Ft Atkinson WI:061208

A home owner in the flood:061208

Stormy skies:the extra rain doesn't help flooded back yards: 061408

..and some sunshine gives us all a break, but the water keeps rising: near downtown Ft. Atkinson on the Rock River:061408.

Water covers the Riverwalk in Ft Atkinson, WI: 061408.

...left and right, water keeps rising on the roads as the Rock River presses in: 061508....we all would really like for this to be over: water up and over Rt. 106 East:

...fighting for your home is hard work: bringing sandbags to people cut off on Milwuakee St by rising floodwaters from the Rock River in Ft. Atkinson: 061708

We all just want it to be over-we are looking for Saturdays' rainbow right now.

...Wanna help?

I am thankful for my friends and neighbors.

We all do what we can when we have to.

Take care, and stay dry.

Steve

Obeoman

..Just have a seat and watch the sun go down on the town and the Rock River; listen to the church bells ring the hour...

...after having a late lunch at Scottie's Eat-Mor, the best 16-stool diner and thickest cheesburgers in the state, not to mention better hash browns, pancakes the size of horse blankets and the greatest BLT around, after the cast from the play at the Fireside got up and gave you a spot at the counter... After you spent the day meandering along the Riverwalk, watching the kids fish,families picnic and boats drift by, slipping up to the dock and their crews having a cool Leinies on the deck at the Legion.

After you strolled through downtown, peering into Catfish Alley, where the largest articulated fish sculpture in the world stands, ducking into I Love Funkies to check out vintage motor scooters, greeting cards and stained glass windows. Arts and Crafts antiques at Five Star, live chickens in the window at Nest, dropping bread to the ducks under the bridge guarded by worn bronze statues of the Native American who put Fort on the map...

After you wandered pass the Cafe Carpe and hear the musicians getting ready for their gig, the guitars and voices blending in the breeze around the corner and down the street past Tuttle's Pharmacy, where everyone says Hi when you come in...

After you woke up late, the only reason being lawn mowing is OK after 10 a.m. on the weekends and sometimes the geese in the backyard are louder than the mowers, because there are more of them, of course,

...more geese than people, just over 11,000 thousand of them in this town-all quieter than the geese,

Except the baseball team after they win, the kids after dinner playing kickball in the back yard, their sound fading in the simple silence of the sunset after you have found your way home in Fort Atkinson.