The Flood

Here are a few pics and a summary of the FLOOD. They are so out of order. Sorry!

Our adventure on the 4 wheeler

Coming home

My cute rain boots

My grandparents farm

This is cow pasture

More pasture

Going through the flooded rd

Here we go

The road we went down but were told to turn back

I was so busy taking pics, I could not look out the window and Houston is hollering smoke on the car, and are we gonna "SHRINK"? hahahah

A view from my side

When we pulled up on the bridge

I know everyone has heard there was a flood in the Mid-south over the weekend. I never woke up Friday night to any storms. However, Saturday I woke up to a phone call alerting me that a tornado watch was in effect. Houston and I stayed in the master bedroom for hours, playing, watching Tv, cleaning and hanging with the pups. Tim had to work. They thought they were going to tough it out and have the Fair on the Square, but finally they got smart and cancelled it. He left work to come home to us. On his way home, he found out Rossville was pretty much closed down due to flooding in the town. He finally made it home a little while later. That night we decided to go to my grandparents farm which is about 5 miles down the rd. We headed out in Tim's car and didn't make it far. Their rd was flooded about a mile from their house. We turned around and headed an alternate route. We drove through some pretty deep water and a truck stopped us and told us to head the other direction because the water was moving pretty hard and there was no way our car would make it. We skied back through the water and headed home to get the 4 wheeler. Once again, we went to the 1st spot and drove the 4wheeler through it.

Sunday we woke up and went to church and for the second night in a row, I never woke up. Kinda weird, I felt so calm about the whole situation. I have a friend in Oakland that had a tree come down on the front and back of her new house. So sad, but so glad they were ok.

After church, we went to Fair on the Square. It was not very crowded due to the bad weather. Sunday afternoon, we spent about 2 hours picking up hundreds of fish that had overflowed from our pond. It was so sad. There were hundreds that were already dead. we filled about 15 five gallon buckets and dumped them back into the pond. Scooby, our puppy, was so funny. Every time we would throw fish into the pond, he would jump in to and retrieve them back out if they did not swim away immediately and then just drop them on the ground. Oh, I wish I had my camera for that adventure. I felt so good about helping the poor fish and was so glad I could make a difference for something so little.