Flooding pics - Nov 16, 2009

I can't believe the water is not in the house yet. It came up so fast, and then just kind of quit coming up. It surrounded the house more, but didn't really come up higher. The latest weather bulletin says it crested at 1:00 pm at 17 feet. It is slowly going down now. Thank goodness. I will still be a mess all night. It's supposed to get colder, and that will make it snow in the mountains instead of rain. Good until later when a warm rain comes in and melts it and we get another flood. I guess we just have to learn to deal with it. Next year will be better. All the animals are okay. Maggie and the puppies are having a ball. They have been chasing homeless moles and salmon all day. it's quite funny to watch them. We won't have to feed them the whole time it's flooding. We did have to move Clyde. He should be fine though. Ginger and the kids are all at Michelle's and Wayne, Penny and I are just hanging out. As long as we can keep our electricity and water we will be fine. That's a real blessing. The garage will be the only thing that we will have to do major clean up on. It's dark now, so we really can't see much more until morning. I'll post again and let everyone know what is going on. Dusty wants to know why we get in on all the natural disasters. I don't know Dusty, but wish you were here to help us out. We could play Phase 10 or maybe your dice game. It would keep me occupied and not worrying so much.

Wayne decided to be funny like he was shooting Salmon out the window. They are not good to eat right now anyway. Too bad

At first we didn't have much water in the back. Right after we moved Clyde, the water came up very quickly. Wayne finally moved the white car to the septic hill. When the water got higher it did go into the garage. Penny went in later and said it was about 6 inches deep. It had lots of junk on the floor, and that will be a mess, but we can clean that up.

Clyde's house is to the left of the middle of this pic. He was okay until the water started getting really close. We finally had to move him. He's now out in the rain, but has a hill to climb up on if the water gets really high. He drug poor Penny all through the water when we were moving him.

The pumphouse - Wayne supposedly built it to withstand the water. So far it's holding up fine. They lost their pump house and pressure tank last time so they had no water. They turned off the electricity also. Hopefully we will keep water and electricity both this time.

The first picture was when we first came back from town about 10:30 ish.

The water came up really fast. It all happened mostly within a couple of hours.

It started getting dark about 5:00 so we won't know more until we either get water in the downstairs or wake up and it's receeded.

The big truck that saves people if they need it.

Wayne and his boots. He cut the tops off so he could get them on better.

He neglected to consider that it also made them shorter. (Easier for the water to get into said the Big Bad Wolf)