Well, I wasn't kidding about the weather making up for the fact that it hadn't rained all summer. The formerly 6 foot wide, 3 inch deep river is currently at 11 feet deep and at least 60 feet wide. It's about 3 feet below the road, or was at 4:00. There are no sand bars, no shorelines visible, the water is brown and full of trees and branches and will flood the road by morning. This is just the portion 3 miles from my house, and is only the North Fork of the river.

It has already shut down SR9 at Acme. The kids from Glacier couldn't come to school today because the buses couldn't get through the water. I had to pick my kids up at school as one of the buses broke down so they took the kids from that route and used our bus to take them home and then were taking ours home late.

We had to go to town, went into the chiropractor, stopped at the store to stock up on milk and ice for the next storm coming in tonight. When we crossed the bridge at Nugent's corner, which is after the North and South Forks have joined together it was only 4 feet below the top of the levy, which is still several feet below the bridge, but they were evacuating houses along the river. It was so fast, the rapids were huge, again swirling masses of muddy water, tree wreckage, no shoreline, no sand bars, just devastating to see it.

I got back home just as soon as I could. I was so nervous but everyone was on their best driving behavior, no one was tailgating, probably because their wiper speed did not go that fast. I was afraid the road would go before I got home or a tree would come down, the wind was so bad today. I lost several branches on the big cedar tree and lots on the giant firs and pines this morning. Nothing came down on wires, thank the good Lord. Stuff came close. We did have a brief power failure this morning, lots of folks did have trees across their driveways and there was so much tree wreckage that had been cleared from the roads.

I bought enough perishable groceries to be able to stay put all week if I need to, even though the worst of the storm should pass by tomorrow night. It's been 3 years, I think since the last flood and its right around the same time that floods occur here, so things are back on target with the weather, anyway.

I hope it all calms down because my mother is going to take the kids Wednesday after school, and then I will pick them up on Friday, that will give me some time to not be locked up with cabin fever with my youngsters. They so need a change of scenery. I so need for them to have a change of scenery. LOL

Received $15 check from ACOP in the mail today for the product trial I did for them last month. Received a $104 insurance refund check in the mail for DH's vision appointment. He had the appointment last summer, didn't send the stuff in, didn't send the stuff in, didn't send the stuff in even though it was all ready to go, finally I took it, put it in an envelope, addressed it and mailed it two weeks ago, and what do you know, here it is. So that will be a total of $119 added to savings when I can get to the bank.

The Schwan's guy just stopped by with my order and he's afraid he can't get home. They've evacuated a large part of Everson, closed Hannegan and Hamilton, they've closed HWY 542, the part 3 miles from my house that was at 3 feet below the road at 4:00, they've closed South Pass so you can't get through Nooksack, down to Sumas, but he might be able to cut around the other pass to get to Sumas that way. Man, I hope this clears up by Wednesday. Yuck. And I'm really glad I got milk and got home when I did.

Now to just cross my fingers that the power does not go out, though I've located all lanterns, flashlights, batteries, candles, lighter, the radio and have a supply of wood in the house. We have 3 5 gallon bottles of water. I've got the cooler and the bag of ice in the freezer just in case, so we are set. We should not flood here, we are well above the creek and well above the river, but we could easily get cut off.