Day One Hundred and Sixty-Seven

Actual Date: Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Ok so it's been awhile again. We've been busy with company and the holidays. But you don't hear me complaining. I wish we had a room on the house for every family member to move into! It's always so sad when they have to leave. It takes a few days for us to readjust to it being just the 5 of us again. But it's sure nice having family around while it lasts.

I am going to try my darnest to get caught up. I got really behind here and it's driving me crazy. So in the spirit of a new year, I am going to fast forward through some of the days so I can get caught up quicker. Plus, I think I might have gotten behind on taking pictures somewhere because I wasn't staying on top of it! So if I skip a day or two here or there, you know why.

Any who, getting back to this day... For two days it had been raining harder than I had ever experienced in my whole life. In fact, by the time I got all the kids unbuckled and ran inside to sign Brooke in at school this morning we all looked like we had stood in the shower fully clothed.

I thought that was bad but what is worse is driving over a dinky little bridge to take Parker to Physical Therapy, only to drive back to that same little bridge an hour and fifteen minutes later and find this...

This was around the corner from the bridge. That's how far the water reached. You can't even see where the bridge should be from this point. It was pretty crazy. I had never seen anything like that.

So I had to turn around and take a different way home. When I was sitting at the stop light down the street from my house I looked down at the HWY it was flooded over too! It's kinda hard to see in this picture but there are 4 lanes (2 each way) there with a very wide median because there is a creek that runs through it, and it is completely full of water. It looked like a lake!

And then this was on the way to pick up Brooke from school.

Apparently that little creek runs along that road too. I never knew it until that point. You can't really see it on a normal day when your driving. But you could REALLY see it today.


And this was on the way back over that same bridge by Brooke's school. Her school is by a golf course and the whole golf course was underwater.


But we made it over the bridge here too. And just in time too I think because I saw police out inspecting it when we were going back across.

This whole storm gave me a whole new respect for Mother Nature. It's amazing what she can do in just two days.