safe and sound.

new beginnings and our whole street is fine!!

after an intense 24 hours, we're back home.  nick, jess, and the kids are spending some more time up north, but will be home later today.  the musicks are back home, and i got the 'go ahead' to come home around 9 this morning.

so after doing some clean up in my little upstairs house, i'm going to shower and take it easy.  

some have asked where our girls were/where they went during all of this.  we only have one right now, who works in seattle during the day, so she just spent the night with a friend up there, and she is safe and dry as well.  

i think just about everyone in our immediate area is okay.  i only saw a small bit of flooding about a 1/2 mile away, so the prayers were answered.

after i blogged jokingly about evacuating yesterday, things escalated pretty quickly.  i talked with jess after seeing a press release from the city of puyallup, and told her it might be more serious than we thought.  at that point, i decided i would stay, and the connollys decided they would stay the night with friends.  the men felt we were all safe, but thought leaving might be a good precautionary choice.  but after an ominous phone call with the fire chief, miles, who had previously been very calm, ran into our house telling us the levee was about to break, and we had to leave now.  it all felt pretty apocalyptic for a minute.  

so, i headed out to find a cheap hotel that would allow pets, and jess waited for nick who was about 5 minutes away.  

so the whole thing happened in a little over an hour, from joking about it to being in a hotel.  the whole thing ended up being precautionary, and our house didn't flood at all, and even our fields are flooded too badly.  the rain stopped early early this morning, and i even caught a glimpse of the sun like 10 minutes ago.  the standing water on our street seems to be slowly backing down as well.  hopefully, we've seen the worst of it, and the river will have some time to go down before the rain starts again!

what's happening today UPDATE

we were evacuated.  right now beulah and i are in the travelodge suites in auburn.  what an adventure.  

got a nice little stress headache brewing, but everyone is safe, and beulah and i are laying here watching seinfeld, and the connollys are on their way up north.  

prayers for everyone in the flood zone, that they get out safe.  we'll see how long this adventure lasts.  but for now, here are some pictures of the pup and i in our new digs.  

i may be updating this a lot, mostly because i'm going to be BOred.  

what's happening today

i have been home for about a week, and life is back to 'normal' here.  when i was still at home, i looked at the 10 day weather forecast for puyallup, and was slightly depressed looking at nothing but rain.  and the weatherman has delivered, it has not let up even for a second.  let's just say there have been many wet walks with the dog.  many.  even so, it hasn't been as bad as i thought it would be (mood wise).  but, today after all this rain, the river right across the street from us is threatening to overflow, which means it would overflow straight into our house.  our roads are already flooded, and it's impossible to go outside in anything but boots.  

after our staff meeting this morning, i had to take beulah out, and figured the quickest and most effective way to get her some exercise and get her back in, was to throw the ball for her out in our back field (which is, you guessed it, flooded).  all morning we had been noticing the horses acting strangely and rolling around all over the place, and sprinting from one end of the field to the other.  i took beu to a closed off section of the field and we went about our business.  that is until the horses decided to stampede straight through a closed fence, and right into our path.  i think beulah almost passed out seeing crazy bucking horses running straight at her.  

so now, we're back inside, a little more wet, but no worse for the wear.  

i'm praying that we won't be evacuated, because that would suck.  i'd probably be that person that climbs up on their roof and waits out the storm.  

in other news, i am officially moving back to the east coast in the spring.  BUT, more to come on that later:)