Jaci

My sons Nick, Drew, & Alex, Nicks girl friend Amanda, Heather, Nate, Brad, Tony & Chris, Drew & Amanda, Eric, Zack, Matt, Chris, Luke, Dustin H, Dustin T, Jake, Mark, Chris, Lora, Debbie, Kim, Georgia, Anita, Lindsey, Rachel, Lindsy and yet another Amanda and My daughter Katie. Countless others who have called to see what we need or who have called to say that they have already taken care of things for us.

On sunday my husband was trying to figure out if we should sandbag our house. We did not even know where to get sand or bags to do it. On sunday night a friend called and said “I’ve been worried about you and I have arranged for someone to bring you sand and here is where you go to get bags.”

On monday we were working our selfs to death trying to get everything out of our basement. All of a sudden there was Nate my sons friend. He jumped in and worked well into the night. Tuesday morning the sand man came and we were standing in the yard wondering how in the heck we were going to get 1500 bags filled and placed around our house fast enough. Here comes Nate with Brad. My sons Nick and Drew made a couple of calls and all of a sudden my yard was filled with young men. The young men listed above and some of the woman worked very hard here filling and placing sand bags around our house. All day long people came and went some worked until they had to leave for work others came as they got off of work. When they raised the prediction and we thought the main floor was going to get flooded my husbands nephew showed up with a 20ft. enclosed trailer from his work. A couple of the young men started moving all the furniture out of my house and into the trailer. The ladys were busy inside packing things in boxes. When we realized that we were going to have trouble getting the trailer moved from our house to my SILs my sons girlfriend made a call and walla! Here comes a man with a truck big enough to get the job done. At every turn I have been over whelmed with the people and support we have received.

Last night right down the road a levee broke and washed a couple of houses off their foundations and down the river. The Army Corps of Engineers have been working on “our” levee 24/7 trying to get it strong enough and tall enough to keep the water out.

As I sit here writing this Nate has just walked in the door. Ready to help again. He actually apologized because he didn’t come yesterday. This is a remarkable young man. He is married with two kids, he needs a better job. I wish I had some connections. I know how hard he worked here for free. I think he would be a great asset to anyone who gave him a chance.

My friend just called, they have lowered the prediction. It now looks like there is a chance we won’t get the water after all. I don’t know how to feel now. Relief for sure I mean we  don’t want our home to flood. Also feeling very foolish that we have done all of this and a great amount of guilt. A lot of people have gone to a lot of trouble for us this week. All of this might not have even been necessary.  A lot of things could still go wrong. The levee could break or they could get the rain that we missed last night. Not out of the woods yet. Now we wait.

I hate waiting.