Flash Back Friday

THE FLOOD OF 2007

This is going to be a long one :)

One year ago we were at Grey's River in Wyoming camping with my family. We were about 5 1/2 hours away from home with no phone reception. It was a great trip, the weather was wonderful & we just had a ton of fun. It was Saturday and we decided to pack up and head home. As soon as we got reception my phone started beeping like crazy. I had a ton of texts and a ton of voice mails. After reading and listening to all of them we found out that there was a terrible rain storm at home on Friday and our basement had flooded. The Jorgenson's (our next door neighbors who always look out for us) had looked over the fence and notice that our backyard was flooded and it was going into our window well. They told us at one point there was at least 5feet of water in our basement, the water ended up settling at around 12 inches. Tammy Jorgenson started calling anyone she could to try and track us down. She got a hold of my office who gave her the phone number to my in-laws. Tami & Wes called everyone else in the family and everyone was over to our place in no time ready to help. The Jorgenson's waded through the yucky water and were able to save some of my pictures and other important things to me before it got too bad.

Kennecott is building "Daybreak" right behind our house. They had been excavating the area to get ready for a new subdivision. There was no draining system set up yet, so when it started raining, the water had no where to go. I guess our house is the lowest elevation on my street so all the water went into our backyard. We were the only ones on the street that flooded. Kennecott took full responsibility for the damage and hired a disaster clean up crew to get it taken care of. By the time we got home on Saturday everything was out of the basement and they had huge fans drying the cement. All of my pictures where laid out in our spare bedroom drying, and all of our stuff was out on the grass drying. Most of the pictures didn't make it, and we threw away a lot of other stuff. I had just bought a brand new treadmill (not cheap) and had only used it a few times. They tried to clean it up, but it didn't make it :(

All of my in-laws were there helping clean up everything, including my messy house. When we got home on Saturday my house was spotless and the basement was clean. We just had to go through and decide what to throw away and what to keep. I am so grateful for our family. The whole drive home I was thinking how horrible it was going to be, and then to get there and they had done everything for us. We are so lucky to have family & friends that would drop what they were doing to help us. We love and appreciate all of you!

All of these pictures were taken by my Tami & Michelle.