Not even close

I'm blogging from the Mehring Ancestral home today.

You may remember a picture I took of the view from the deck on the back of stately Mehring Manor in September, 2007:

This is from this morning:
Here is the view from down at the bottom of the path that leads to where the backyard is supposed to be:
Fortunately, there is nothing in the basement. Fortunately.

And this is nowhere near the amount of water with which the folks over in Iowa have had to deal.