Well, I had honestly started a blog earlier today and we were working on picking out which pictures to use. We've been wonderfully busy the past month and have been documenting it, just not downloading the photos and blogging about it.
BUT......that blog is on hold now and we have an update...
The rain that has fallen for the past day finally turned to snow at 1:00am or so...I guess it's officially Jan 2 as I write this. And yes, we were still awake to see that transition. All day we've been watching the creek in the park get higher and wider and thought that at the most we might have a soggy backyard. We popped in a movie at 7:45 with all of the water still on the other side of the fence. When the movie was over at 9:45 we went to let Jada out for a night time potty break. There was what looked to be a lake in our backyard. Further investigation down the staircase revealed the water was up to the bottom step (about 4 inches high) and there was a river flowing along the side of the house!!!!
Jason opened the side gate to release the flow, the street in the front was already filling up. We also noticed a trickle of water coming in the side door. A visit from the neighbors helped as they knew what number to call to complain about the creek's culvert being stopped up. To make a very long story short....It is 2:45am and the entire basement is now covered in 4-5 inches of water. It covers the bottom step of our inside staircase. We spent a few hours moving everything (furniture included) upstairs. Once it started it went really fast. The street finally spilled over into the front yard...it's now completely underwater as well. Our cars have water over halfway up the tires. From our porch when you look to the left it looks like a river running into the ocean. Trucks attempting to drive by end up with water over the hood of the truck!
Amazingly Tyson has slept through this whole thing!! And so far we still have power and hot water. Jason turned off the power to downstairs and in trying to figure out the breakers hit one for the kitchen and now the stove won't turn back on even though every thing else is on. Hmmm...we've even double checked and flipped and nothing....grrr... but for now we are doing fine...just a little frustrated at the prospect of all of the water damage downstairs. The washer and dryer are sitting in water right now...
Ah well. It's all just stuff. We're safe and warm for the time being. We've had record snowfall and record flooding (we live at 436 ft above sealevel! They deemed us 'not in a flood plain' for insurance....Ha!). What other adventures are in store for us here? :O)
We're gonna watch the snow for a few more minutes, then head to bed. Ty will be making his appearance around 7:00 or so. Maybe this morning will be one of those God given mornings where he sleeps in till 8 or 8:30...It happened last week!
Night Night.
2 comments:
Glad you all are safe and surviving! David just started working for Service Master. Too bad he's not close enough to come help you out! Flooding is what he's been doing A LOT of (and fires/smoke damage).
Oh man! I hope there isn't too much damage to the house and appliances! ((hugs))
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