Flood Pics '09 part 1

This is the mark the flood is supposed to reach. If it goes over this, the dike will be breached.

As of this posting, the neighborhood was going to build up another foot of sandbags on top of this. All that white, is snow and ice built up along the encroaching river. We had over 7 inches of snow yesterday.

Getting closer every hour....

This is a view of the river from my parents' deck. It comes up about 1o feet onto the trunks of the trees.

This is a part of the deck that had to be ripped out to accomodate more sandbags.

A view from the safe side of the barricade. You can see the water right up next to the sandbags.

This is a portion of the vast wall of sandbags protecting my parents' house.