Saturday, June 25, 2011 :: Water slowly coming fast

Things You Should Not Do on 2 Hours of Sleep
You should not...
1. ...wake up an hour early to the sound of light rain when a) you live in a drastically flooded area with floodwater threatening your home and b) several people have told you "Well if you get a big rain up north, you should get out fast."
2. ...have to deal with the fact that the light rain quickly developed into a torrential rain complete with lightning and thunder.
3.  ...receive this sort of a phone call from your husband, "Call EVERYONE you know that has offered a covered trailer, get them here and pack up EVERYTHING."
4. ...try to find your list of people who offered trailers to call them. You also should have written down everyone's phone numbers on your nifty little list so that calls could be made quickly and easily in a state of panic.
5. ...make decisions of what goes out the door at what time, to which trailer, to which location, in what order...etc. After a while, you just start second-guessing yourself or completely not caring where they put the coat rack shaped like a banana. (What? Those of you who helped us totally missed the banana coat rack? No, you didn't. I'm teasing, we don't own a banana coat rack although that would be fun to see!)
6. ...continue at rocket speed for hours, watching all of your belongings being loaded up, knowing at some point they must be unloaded, but not knowing where or when that will happen for sure.
7. ...see the sun come out about the time we're all done loading, then wondering the rest of the day with the shining if you did the right thing.

Well, if you haven't gathered, we've packed up, and in a little more of a hurry than expected. The heavy rain this morning about 7am caused a bit of panic in this household, and we were trying to get out as fast as we could because we weren't sure if the rain would ever stop, and if the levee would hold. PTL the rain DID stop, and the levee did hold.

The bright side--we don't have to worry at all about getting our things out of flood-zone.  The not-so-bright side--we are in a state of utter disorganization. Like you cannot imagine.

On the water side, the water is currently filling up our area quickly, although it is not rushing in light a freight train. Here's the view from about 1/2 mile south of us:

If you click on it to make it larger, you can see there is a little water right here, but just a little ways down this road? Solid water. Don't worry, it IS coming in fast, but not rushing rapids fast. Things are just filling up fast. We'll keep an eye on it. We are not going to put ourselves in danger, so don't worry.

Oh, and one more thing to add to the list of  "Things You Should Not Do on 2 Hours of Sleep?" Try to stay awake long enough to write a blog post of any sort.