the flood

Last wed. it rain really hard for about 2 hours and it flooded all over the city. We heard that 9 people in the city died in the flood, so sad. The pictures or of our street, our neighbors across the street bucketing out water, and our front "yard." Which had about six inches or so of water, which left about an inch of mud when it drained! But very thankful that our house is up and not directly on the street and that we didn't flood. One of the houses here that workers use has a basement and they found out the next morning that the water had backed up in the kitchen and bathroom in the basement so it had a couple of inches of "mud" if thats what you want to call it covering the basement. Kirk went and helped them move furniture and clean up, then he came home and soaked his feet in clorox water, good thing he has had is hep A vaccine. The pictures don't really do justice to what it was like but give an idea.
Crazy we moved to what was one of the driest place and we have seen a lot of rain. Our city has not seen rain like this in over 10 years!!! All the workers we have talked to said they haven't seen anything like this. crazy!
and it is still raining every afternoon, just not as bad as Wed.
Like the rain and it is so good for the city, things are even beginning to turn green!!! but really do not like the nasty mud. (sewage systems here have a lot to be desired, so you never really know what the mud is or what is in the water)

this is our "yard." we are standing on the roof taking these pictures.



this is a picture of our "yard" the day after, it will take me a long time to get all that mud and dirt up!!!!