We spent the afternoon offering snacks and water and clean up kits; boxes and care kits to residents. We listen to their stories of the flood of 2009 and watched the water rise. We wondered if we were really needed. Some people had already moved all there furniture out and the rest had truck beds and big trucks and family and friends sitting around and waiting and watching the water slowly rise. If you have the idea that once the rain stops the flood is over. You would be wrong. . Jack has always told us that flood is his least favorite DR to work and this one being in his own back yard is tough. With a storm, you go through and it is over and clean up and recovery begins. Not so with a flood. Red Cross has to call and alert volunteers to be on call and wait, putting their lives on hold for as long as they may be needed. We waited and watched, no one seem to need much that we had to offer.
Then, around 4:00, it was like a switch was flipped and every one was one there cell phone. We went back through one more time before they left and every one wanted all we had to offer. We gave out all but one of the clean up kits and cases of water and snacks and care kits. The water was still rising and it would soon be dark and decisions had to be made.
Mark and I got home 30 minutes before our neighbors came over for supper. We cooked country fried steak and mac and cheese and sauteed Zucs and rice and gravy and beans and corn and sliced tomatoes and cucumbers in 30 minutes. We would have been a good Rachel Ray guest and we enjoyed our guest.
Today, we need to pack a bag and go by fire station and get more clean up kits and drive back over to Valdosta. Please pray for the flood victims. As Jack says, it could get real ugly.
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