I got a notice on my phone regarding flash floods being possible as I was going to sleep. Once I awakened, my Mom let me know that my basement did NOT flood. Our houses are 10 minutes apart and hers did! My friend lives even closer to me than my Mom and hers flooded as well!
She lives north of me a few minutes and my Mom is south of me 10 minutes. It seems that my island persists seven years later because that was the last time that there was major flooding everywhere but my house! Seven years ago, the flooding took place on the weekend as well. I was going to go shopping that Saturday before we went to church so my refrigerator was empty! I remember telling Sean that the only options we had to eat were tubby‘s and Tim Hortons because their parking lots did not flood like the grocery store!
I called him and reminded him of going to eat at those two places for about a week. The memory was kind of fun for me but then I opened Facebook!
My neighbor growing up posted these pictures and a video of her house and I was completely speechless! She lives in the house that her parents lived in and I remember walking to her house. She is just up the street! When I saw these pictures, I realized the gravity of the situation!:
This was the intersection that I walked to McDonald’s and Arbor Drugs with my friend growing up! Seeing these pictures, kind of startled me! My nephew sent my mom a video of the basement. There’s about 3 feet of water there! I told her not to worry about anything I have left at her house and getting rid of it all because the water smells really bad!
It is supposed to rain all weekend and next week so I’m not out of the woods yet but this is a really big mess! My Mom is at her house right now cleaning up from all the water!