New Experience Never to be Repeated

This week there was an historic catastrophic event that happened in Goshen, IN where we live - which was the "100 year rain" (somebody told Steve that was a thing) on top of 14-18" of snow that we had a few days before. It was first time ever that we lived in a house where it was threatened by rising flood waters. It was such an eerie, helpless feeling as we watched the water rise and knew that there was absolutely nothing we could do to make it stop.

Steve had measured with his laser and put out markers so we knew where the levels were and how much more levels of water we could take before we had to bail. Thankfully, we never had to bail. But we kept watching the water keep inching up to those markers.

Then to top it all off - our sump pump quit working and quickly the basement began to fill up with water. Steve rushed to get one from a coworker who lent us his that he said may or may not work - it worked for a while and then that one gave out. Steve then had to run around trying to find a place that actually had any in stock. While he was at Big R - within just a couple of minutes - 3-4 more people came in looking for sump pumps and evidently Steve looked like he knew about those kinds of things cuz they all kept asking him questions. Finally, he said "sorry but my basement is filling up - I gotta go."  One the greatest attributes of his character is kindness. Our basement got to about 4-6" which wasn't bad but nevertheless set us to scrambling on getting some of our precious photo albums and memorabilia out of the danger zone.

Woke up this morning to the water quickly receding - we are flood free and never want to experience that again.We are very aware of others who's homes and business's are devastated by the flood waters. We are counting our blessings - it could have been so much worse for us. One of the neighbors down the road had to be rescued by boat. The firefighters wading in to get here had water up to their waists. Another "older" couple had to evacuate their house right there on the corner because of rising water and foundation beginning to crumble.