Flooding

These pictures don't really do it justice but it was really bad.  One day I was at home sick.  I was watching movies in the spare room when my parents came home around 4 or 5 (somehow they always get long service days when I'm sick :-[  what's up with that?  ) anyways they come in and start saying it was flooding. I come out to see our living room, kitchen and back porch are all flooded ankle deep which I would have noticed it I hadn't planted myself in front of the computer with a blanket and hot chocolate for the day.  But I have no regrets since if I had caught it what would I have done without a phone? It had been absolutely pouring solid rain for a while (making it seriously hard to hear my movie)   but I never considered the possibility of it coming in the house. As it turns out the water was coming into the back porch from the super flooded backyard.  We swept and vacuumed and a brother and sister came to help.  The brother and dad put up a little wall out of sandbags.  But the next day it poured again and dad dug a trench to keep the rain that was still coming in a bit help.  It was all so crazy.  Thankfully the only thing that might have been hurt by the water was the sewing machine which we haven't tried yet to see if it broke.  The laundry room flooded really bad since our house (like most here)  isn't completely level. So once we put the dehumidifier on for the floor and washed ridiculous amounts of laundry (using the dryer at a brother and sister house) everything was normal again.  Here are some pictures.  This was after we got some of the water out though.