"Jahnke and about 60 others who became trapped in the area by the rising waters spent the night with about 20 Costco employees sitting on sofas and sleeping on mattresses in the second-floor break room."

"Some employees kept their feet out of the water by sitting on the checkout counters while taking a break from providing their overnight guests with an unlimited supply of popcorn, muffins, energy bars, bottled water and dry clothes. 'We just thought we’d have to sit it out a little bit,' said Jahnke, who lives near Capital Brewery in Middleton. 'They took a (crummy) situation and made it semi-enjoyable because they always remained calm, they were well organized and constantly were checking on people.' Jahnke isn’t even a Costco member. He had gone to Monk’s Bar & Grill with his girlfriend, Raechel Ramirez, but after leaving the restaurant their car stalled in standing water. They pushed the 2013 Dodge Dart into the Costco parking lot at about 8:30 p.m., moving it two more times to keep out of the path of the water. At about 10 p.m., employees from the store, which had closed around 6 p.m. after losing power, began asking people in the parking lot to come inside.... Water began coming in the front door of the store at around 10:30 p.m.... 'The smell was just rot. That’s the best way to describe it. A sewage and rot smell,' said Jahnke, 27. 'I went nose-blind. I grew accustomed to that smell... I never thought I would be in danger until Monday... I will most definitely get a membership.'"

From a Wisconsin State Journal article about the big rainstorm we had here in Madison on Monday night.