Tuesday, December 15, 2009

My car is home!

This is what our house looks like after a hard rain!!!!! Is it a house boat? Maybe we need pontoons!!!!!



Tuesday Dec. 8th at 12:30 am I woke up, because I knew that something was wrong. I checked on my baby girl and my husband, who falls asleep in his chair every night before coming to bed, then I checked outside. See it had been raining since Sunday night and when we get a lot of rain our property floods, and I don't mean SOME water in the yard, 2 feet of water in our yard our house looks like a house boat in the middle of a pond! Anyway, I looked out the back door and the water was up to the 2nd step and I knew that my car had water in it all ready.
After waking my husband up, I went out and tried to catch things before they started to float away. My husband's rubber boots had all ready disappeared, but mine were floating by the house. The water was about 2 inches from my knees, past the bottom of my car doors and almost to the step sides of the company truck. We decided to get our daughter out of there and went across the road to the neighbors house, which had a little standing water in the yard. They welcomed us in with open arms and my husband started working on getting the car out of the water.
Luckily it started fine, but there was about 8 inches of water INSIDE the car. Soaked in the seats and carpet and damaged a module for the electric system that was located under the carpet. Thankfully that was all that happened. The house is fine and we may have lost a few things that were under the water in our shed, but we have our family and our belongings in the house!!!! Just got to remember that it could always be worse!!!!!
If anyone knows how to go about lifting a house and property, could you please give us an idea on where to start?

Happy Holidays!




4 comments:

  1. Oh Sweetie..that is a bunch of water..is there any way to put an earthen dike around the house? What do other people do down there? Hope you are drying out! :)

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  2. dang,,,too much water....dang....drought....
    it goes on and on...LA get drought season?
    always something. Glad to hear that the car is doing great. Like you said, J...it could be worse. Above all...you keep your family (pets, too) safe.

    See ya soon...

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  3. LESS THAN A WEEK NOW!!!!!!!! SEE YOU SOON - LOVE YOU ALL!

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  4. Just saw this post --- don't know why it doesn't list as recent posts. ---- Man - that is a lot of water! Ugh.... I'm going to buy you a snorkel for Xmas!

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