Recapping....

Wow it's been awhile since I updated, seems like it was just last week rather than almost a month.

We ended up having a second crest around 16 feet and by that point it wasn't bad. I think that we ended up with a 500 year flood, of course we're not getting much attention since a large town farther down the river also had major flooding around or over the 500 yr flood plan.

Cleanup is well underway here, several downtown businesses have relocated or repaired and reopened. It's nice to see that. Unfortunately it seems like there is more debris on main street every few days. Also we lost the new pet store.

So many homes are still being cleaned and are not inhabited. The middle school is being relocated to an office space and the elementary school has been cleaned and will reopen in the fall.


Thankfully all of our family downstream is OK and did not have flooding. Over the weekend we found out that 100 people from Boyd's old work have been flooded and several lost their homes. The office where I use to work had 7 feet of water and everyone is working at home or alternative locations. They think the office will reopen in a year or so. Other businesses in the downtown are scheduled to reopen within a month.