The Aftermath Part I: This Morning's Findings

This morning at around 0830, we went out to our "swamp house" and these are the sights that we found (please read one of my earlier posts for the major details):

Our street is the one perpendicular to the stop sign--under water

Looking to the left from the stop signLooking to the right from the stop sign. Our mailbox is the small black dot above the water line on the leftOur backyard

Looking from our property back down the street

The ditches along and through our property

Our neighbor's home---they have 2 inches inside their home. They had only just finished with their renovation from the August storm and had just laid the carpeting only two or three weeks earlier.

Us driving from our neighbor's home. Check out the wake--and we were driving slowly!

Another neighbor's home...thankfully, their home does not have water inside

The EMS and fire department trying to figure the best way to respond to the 911 call from our neighbor right next door. Our neighbor, Martha was providing refuge to another family that lost their home to flooding from this storm and the man called 911 with chest pains.

The waters are rising and the responders were fearful that the weight of their trucks would be too much for the already compromised road.

The line-up of vehicles--there were two or three others that you could not see. The responders decided to drive the middle truck in.

The hook and ladder truck never got any further---it just weighed too much to chance on our overflowing roads

The gentleman was brought out in the front of the truck on the right and placed on a stretcher and put in the ambulance.

Another look at the road once all the trucks left.

We are so thankful that the rising waters had not reached the inside of our home, but we were heartbroken for our neighbors who had renovated and moved back into their home only to find themselves flooded out once again.

We just pray that Sunday's storms will not add insult to injury. The land is so saturated, it would not take much for the waters to rise to the levels of the storm in August.