Flood aftermath

What a crazy night we had Wednesday night. Tom had to go into work early so he left around 6:00 and it just started to rain then. I cleaned up from supper and made a veggie pizza for food day on Thursday then off to Chris and Kristi's I went. I told all the boys they were going to have a new baby cousin. They were all excited. It rained the whole time I was there and finally it let up a little so I headed home. It was about 8:00. I pulled into the driveway and my garage door wouldn't open, oh great I didn't think I had a key to get in the house but I did, thank God, so I ran up the stairs with my umbrella, it was pouring! It was just like the night of Lady A, crazy! So needless to say the power was out. I went down and manually opened the garage door so I could get my car in. So since it was getting dark, there wasn't much I could do so I went to bed. I woke up a few times here and there and it was still raining. Thunder and Lightening all night long. Finally about 2:30 the power came back on. I was glad because I was starting to get hot. I got up to plug my phone in because it had died then I crawled back into bed.

I woke up at my normal time of 6:00 and it was still raining! Tom called me and said there was a house on Kelly Lane that had burned down and Perkins Restaurant too. Come to find out the house that burned down was Micayla and Brandon's uncle. It's a complete loss. They live just down the block from us on Old Mill Road. After Tom told me that I went and looked out Micayla's bedroom and here a part of our retaining wall came down, you can see where the stream of water came down the hill, crazy!

I went to check the basement and it wasn't too bad. Things were wet but nothing we couldn't handle, so that's our job for the weekend, to clean up since we will not be camping. We were supposed to go canoeing but that's canceled because of the high water and I think it's a good thing as well, I don't want to jeopardize this pregnancy.

My friend, Julie, was going to pick me up from work however she couldn't get to my house because of the house fire so I told her to go back home and stay there. I had talked to my boss and we were going to put the weather emergency on so no one had to go out in this mess. Most people couldn't make it anyways. As I was waiting for Tom to get home I walked down to the neighbors, the one with the playground in the yard, well, here is what it looks like now.

 

It's a total mess and I feel so bad for them, they just put there house up on the market but after I got talking to Kathy, the owner, they didn't know if they really wanted to sell it but thought they would try, well, they are not going to anymore, they decided to add on to there house. I don't know about the yard but that will come in time. Well, come to find out she's pregnant too and due in December and there are 2 other girls in our neighbor hood all pregnant too so we'll have lots of people to play with once our baby is born. We were so excited!

I went in this morning for another HCG test and my levels on Wednesday were 143 and today they were 422! They said that was awesome and perfect. I was so happy to hear that. Now I have to schedule my first Utlrasound and the doctor's here in DBQ are waiting for the fax from Davenport. Once that's done, no more Davenport or Iowa City! Yeah...

We are heading up to mom and dad's for steaks tonight. I'm picking up Chris and Kristi so they can drink. Chris already designated me to be the driver! LOL I love it though, it doesn't bother me one bit.