Thank you very much for your kind encouragement and understanding. I knew this was a testing time so I had to try to be mindful and calm. It’s good to have lovely cats to keep me grounded and practical.
I was glad that I didn’t encounter any poisonous animals while I was wading through the floodwater. The water was surprisingly very cold! Things would change as the water traveled down the river later on. We just had to sit tight and wait.
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I was very close to being in this situation a few years back. As the levee near my house was almost compromised. Crews worked days near that levee reinforcing it. A lot caused by damns holding too much water upstream. A very nerve wracking time and unfortunately you can do nothing but wait it out.
Oh! That must have been quite stressful waiting to see what would happen next! Luckily, they had find a good job of preventing the levee from breaking.
I kept checking the level on water on the staircase very often. I could see when it climbed the first step, then the second step and third step. Then it became still on the third step for a day. Slowly it went down a few inches on a day. I knew the flood water had traveled down south. People in the south would have to prepare for the impending flood.
We had to wait for two more days to see if we could walk in the ground floor again.
Thanks so much for your moral support!
That particular year of the flood many North and South of us weren't so lucky with it. A few of the levee did fail. It usually meant water levels went down in our area if a north levee failed. They even had the National Guard on 24 hour watch for several weeks. The only bad thing with there presence is we couldn't check out what was happening on it because the public were not allowed on it. Probably a good thing if it would have failed being on or near it would be a likely death.