Flooded!

This was our life this past week. The top picture is taken about a half mile down the road from our house. The second picture is a house about a half mile in front of our house! As the Mermac River began to rise, our house and area was surround with water. The Chief of Police called and encouraged our neighborhood to evacuate due to the ensuing waters. Hope is due any day now, and not wanting to have to take Hope to the hospital via boat, we decided to evacuate and move in with some generous friends, the Lovealls! Some friends from church put our dogs up for a few days and we just waited. We tried to return home on Friday to see the damage, but were unable due to the waters covering the highways and roads into the town. Finally on Saturday we were able to get back home to find that our house was fine and the water had not reached our house. The Mermac river floods at 18 ft. It crested on Friday night at 41 feet. It was predicted to reach 47 feet! If it had done that then our house and our church would have been flooded. But praise God it recessed before that point. But as you can see in the pictures, others were not so fortunate. There is a lot of clean-up happening now and the process of rebuilding for many begins. The commissioner of the Eureka Fire Dept. is a member of our church and told me that the Coast Guard had to rescue 52 people in our area during the week. It is amazing what 10 inches of rain can do! Thankfully, Hope did not go into labor during this time and at this moment still remains prego! But it has to be soon...it just has to be.