Water Water, Everywhere...

Anybody got room to house a potential flood victim?

Hold on.. let me rewind and explain.

I live on a hill overlooking the East Fork of White River in southern Indiana. I've lived here for 23 years and though we've had some hum-dinger floods (yes, I said "hum-dinger") We've never had to evacuate our houses. Oh we've had some close-calls.. We have to park our vehicles out on the main road and up the hill a bit to keep ourselves mobile (didn't get my car out in time in '96 and was very thoroughly trapped until the waters went down) But thus far... *knocks on wood* we've been lucky.

Don't quote me just yet.. but I think our luck is about to run out. Still have a day, maybe two, before the river crests ( for all you non-river folk.. cresting means when the water stops raising) and they've forecast it as raising another 3-4 feet before then. Only problem is.. another 3 feet puts the water right at my door.. and possibly in my house.

Not a good thing.

Fortunately, my car is on dry ground I'm able to get to it even though it takes a freaking hike over the hills and through the woods ( can't go over the river, that's the whole problem), it's stocked with clothes and some blankets, and I have enough tables to put all my stuff up on. Only problem is... what the heck am I supposed to do with my three cats, and my three dogs who weigh a minimum of 40lbs each? Guess we'll cross that bridge when we come to it...

If the flood waters don't wash it out :)