Wild but not Wet Time

I don't have any pictures to show you, but we are fine. The water never reaches us - if it got that high, the entire coast would be under. We did have an interesting time of it! The creek near here backed up into the gully that runs along Hwy 20 - over the end of the road we use to get out. The other end of the road (it's a loop) routinely gets water during flood events. Mark managed to get to work Wed, but it took him forever since he had to backtrack and go up to Concrete to cross the river and come down the South Skagit road - which usually has water too. He managed to get home the same route. Mudslides have been the worst, closing roads. The rivers have crested, but most of the problem is creeks and drainage ditches backed up with debris, which may take longer to go away. I've seen DOT trucks going around with their plows down to help clear stuff off the road.

Our neighbor and friend unfortunately has her driveway inundated with water from the creek overflow - this has never happened before! Her cars were parked at the end because there was still snow and ice on her driveway - so her car was in the water (she later managed to get it up and out of the water). The girls and I went to check on her and her granddaughters, and decided to cross the horse pasture to get to her house - 2 fence gates and a barbed wire fence later, we were there! Her husband is in the hospital, so being stuck was a problem. We drove past her house with the truck today but couldn't stop; the water was too deep. There was water coming over the hood from the wave we pushed, too deep to try and get her little car out. So today they did the same trek out that we did in, and Mark drove her to Everett (where her husband's having surgery tomorrow). The youngest girl is in-between Meghan and Jenna in age, goes to the same preschool, so she's hanging with us. The older girl is staying with a friend in Lyman. It's our first sleep-over!