Hello everyone.
Well, I'm safe and my house remains dry. Except for the leak in my water heater that I discovered just days before this insane flood business. Needless to say, it's been difficult to try and get someone out to replace it.
Anyway, they've closed the office again today. This is the third day in a row. On the upside, we'll get paid for these days off. I haven't been to work since Tuesday of last week. I had taken Wednesday off to assist with the flood preparation. I did my part by sandbagging up in the Oakport area of Moorhead, MN for the day. If you've seen the news, most of those peoples' homes didn't make it.
Thursday they cancelled school, so I had no choice but to stay home with the little moodling. Moodess had to work otherwise I would have went in to the office. I heard it was absolutely dead there anyway. So we went to the Country Club area of Moorhead to help out with sand bagging efforts there. For as much sand bagging there was available to do, there were way to many people there. I didn't stay long, but Moodess stayed with two of her friends as I took the moodling home.
Friday they cancelled work due to emergency city shutdown. We got calls from the Code Red emergency notification system at 6:00am saying that I lived in an area that was having issues with sewage backup and that we needed to plug our drains in the basement of our house. So When I got up about an hour later, I called around to see who had drain plugs. Mac's hardware had the 3" plugs and Menard's had the 1.5" plugs. We've been all plugged up since Friday. Moodess and I went to her friend's parents place in the Country Club area to help plug up their drains. Then packed and planned to evacuate if the need arose. It didn't, but it's nice to be prepared.
So now they've closed work again, and I'm stuck in the house for another day with this damn weather. Oh, and I got a flat tire yesterday and it took Tire's Plus almost two hours to fix it. And I had even taken the flat off for them.
Sorry for the long post, but much has gone on the last few days. Take care,
Valley Flood Watch
Well, I'm safe and my house remains dry. Except for the leak in my water heater that I discovered just days before this insane flood business. Needless to say, it's been difficult to try and get someone out to replace it.
Anyway, they've closed the office again today. This is the third day in a row. On the upside, we'll get paid for these days off. I haven't been to work since Tuesday of last week. I had taken Wednesday off to assist with the flood preparation. I did my part by sandbagging up in the Oakport area of Moorhead, MN for the day. If you've seen the news, most of those peoples' homes didn't make it.
Thursday they cancelled school, so I had no choice but to stay home with the little moodling. Moodess had to work otherwise I would have went in to the office. I heard it was absolutely dead there anyway. So we went to the Country Club area of Moorhead to help out with sand bagging efforts there. For as much sand bagging there was available to do, there were way to many people there. I didn't stay long, but Moodess stayed with two of her friends as I took the moodling home.
Friday they cancelled work due to emergency city shutdown. We got calls from the Code Red emergency notification system at 6:00am saying that I lived in an area that was having issues with sewage backup and that we needed to plug our drains in the basement of our house. So When I got up about an hour later, I called around to see who had drain plugs. Mac's hardware had the 3" plugs and Menard's had the 1.5" plugs. We've been all plugged up since Friday. Moodess and I went to her friend's parents place in the Country Club area to help plug up their drains. Then packed and planned to evacuate if the need arose. It didn't, but it's nice to be prepared.
So now they've closed work again, and I'm stuck in the house for another day with this damn weather. Oh, and I got a flat tire yesterday and it took Tire's Plus almost two hours to fix it. And I had even taken the flat off for them.
Sorry for the long post, but much has gone on the last few days. Take care,
Valley Flood Watch
posted by mood killer at 8:23 PM
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