Flooding in Milwaukee

[RobDeer 45]

Hey everyone.  I was up north and not on devices too much.  Have many of you been affected by the flooding in Milwaukee and the surrounding area?  What caused most of the issues, rivers and streams rising or were low areas filling up with rain water as well.  How long was it raining?  Sorry I'm so out of the loop!  Send pictures or stories if you have them.

[homer]

It was a 1,000 year flood. Some areas had 10 inches of rain in less than 6 hours. I know 5 people who had flooding in their basements in Brookfield, Wauwatosa, and West Allis.

[RobDeer 45]

That is a crazy amount of rain!

[homer]

https://www.jsonline.com/story/weather/2025/08/11/milwaukee-storms-flooding-rivers-nws-explainer/85606358007/?tbref=hp

[LouisEly]

How far north and west did it extend?

[homer]

18 hours ago, LouisEly said:

How far north and west did it extend?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Milwaukee_flood

 

Milwaukee + WOW counties got the brunt of it.

[BrewerFan]

On 8/12/2025 at 9:37 AM, homer said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Milwaukee_flood

 

Milwaukee + WOW counties got the brunt of it.

I live about 10 minutes away from my folks in Waukesha County. I called and asked how bad it was. My Dad just said, "it's gonna miss us," and... that didn't really make sense as I'd just driven by their exit and I could barely see, but I thought...'ok, it's raining harder than I've seen in years.' 

Stopped over the next day, they, luckily, live atop a hill, but they do have a pond in their yard that was just overflowing and just big ruts in their yard where it looked like my Dad partially drove his truck.

 

So I asked him, 'thought you didn't any rain,' and... he just said, 'it was supposed to miss us!' Turns out... he couldn't be bothered to look out the window or...well, hear the pounding rain. The phone told him it'd go south of him or...whatever. He's normally nearly perfect, so I'll be reminding him of this for a while.