The Flood of 2012

First of all, I'm glad that it has not rained for 40 days and 40 nights. But from 6:00pm on Tuesday to 6:00pm on Wednesday we got 9 inches of rain. The sewer system could not keep up, rivers over flowed, sink holes appeared, basements flooded and millions of dollars of damaged was caused. We are okay, safe, warm and dry. However, our apartment has seen dryer days. At first we thought just Gavin and Logan's room was going to flood. But then it spread to our bedroom, the living room and the kitchen. Our carpet is destroyed along with two computers, a dresser, two ottomans, playmats, some of the boys' toys, their cribs, and two shelving units.

 It could have been worse, we could have had tons of water standing in our apartment but thanks to Galen and his dad (who stayed up all night) we don't. As of now, we are living in Mike and Adrie's room for a few days. A professional cleaning crew has been called and we are hoping to return to our apartment in a week. We have tons of laundry to wash, tons of stuff to clean and lots of stuff to throw away and replace. Compared to a lot of the people here we got off easy and we are so thankful for that.