Adventures of Mandogrl!

Well, here we are at home again today, second day in a row after the 'state of emergency' has been called for the town of Stephenville because of flooding. The town is starting to dry up today but there are still two major bridges closed in town and we do not have any water for the second day in a row. Luckily, we filled some buckets yesterday in the downpour for flushing and our neighbor has a pool full as well so we are okay on that end (teehee). A total of 150mm of rain fell on us within a 24 hour period, luckily we built our house on a high point of land. A lot of homes have been damaged, some turned around on their foundations, oil tanks leaking through them. Apparently a dam had let go further up the river and that's what caused all of the flooding. I guess most people saw the pic. on tv next to mcdonalds where, literally a river ran through it, or by it anyway. I, personally, have not been out around town to survey the damage but I plan to go out later to get a look. Yestday when we arrived at school and were told that school was closed I did a few things and headed straight for home. We've spent the last few days playing games (checkers, pretty pretty princess)and painting our faces in prep. for halloween. You can see some pics that Mike took at this site.