{"id":306,"date":"2008-09-13T12:23:04","date_gmt":"2008-09-13T19:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/famille.org\/?p=306"},"modified":"2008-09-13T12:23:04","modified_gmt":"2008-09-13T19:23:04","slug":"how-are-we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/famille.org\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"How Are We?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even before Ike churns through the midwest, we are getting hit by a fairly substantial storm from the west that is flooding most of Chicago.  <\/p>\n

We’re OK for now.  We took about an inch of water in the basement, but it was a fairly small section of floor and I was able to bail us out with the shop-vac.   For now, we’re holding dry.  The street outside our house, however, is now known as Lake Trumbull, part of a chain of lakes including Lake Lee and Lake St. Louis.  I just moved our cars to high ground, a few blocks away.<\/p>\n

Now, we’ve just got to prepare for the after-effects of Ike.  Gustav dumped three inches of rain in six hours on Chicago.  We’re hoping for the best, my shop-vac is ready \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Even before Ike churns through the midwest, we are getting hit by a fairly substantial storm from the west that is flooding most of Chicago.  We’re OK for now.  We took about an inch of water in the basement, but it was a fairly small section of floor and I was able to bail us […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kids-family"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t