friction & harmony

We went to bed at 1:30am, we were asleep while the water rapidly rose. We woke up at 2:30am to water pouring into every log of the cabin. The waters outside were already waist- deep, while the water inside was rising to ankle level.

We pulled all the low level power plugs in the house because amazingly we still had power. I packed few and random clothes, food i thought was small enough to carry, a water jug, a one person pop-up tent, my cell phone and my cat.

When we tried to escape out of the door closest to the mountain, the water pressure was bearing on the door latch so tightly that the handle couldnt be turned. If it weren't for the screen door on the side of the house barely holding back the flood, we may have been trapped inside.

We climbed out and waded through the backyard in the dark through water that came up to our ribs, carrying my cat in his carrier.

Flashlights and lightning strikes lit the way across the backyard to the higher ground.

We spent the night on top of the quarry under a cluster of trees and in a flimsy tent with my cat. The tent wasnt waterproof so we endured the storm until dawn when it finally stopped raining.

When we assessed the flood at its peak, the water reached all but the top two logs of the cabin, inside and out. My car and my mom's car were mostly submerged and floating across the backyard. Large boulders, two 1-ton concrete blocks, and a scaffolding/platform structure near the front ditch had toppled over with the strength of the current.

As the floodwaters receded, one of my mom's vehicles was sunk halfway into the pond at the edge of the property.