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[polly7]

11. It's going about as good as can be expected.

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Yes, thankfully the water has gone down, but the rivers and creeks are still over-flowing and everything is so saturated. My town still has water all over the lower-lying areas. We have a huge trucking company here that has a dozen or so vac-trucks and they're going from house to house trying to help out with holes dug outside and pipes to drain the water. Some streets still not passable, and the highway's pretty much toast at one place but people are handling it not too bad.

My neighbour's, whose house was condemned, lost everything - even pictures, they had to get out so fast. Another neighbour had rushed in and put up some beams on one wall of the basement when it first started raining so the house wouldn't fall in, so that's all that's holding it up. But a friend and I are doing a sneaky (hoping the guys in uniform in the scary black truck/vans don't catch us) and are going in later today to rescue what we can. We're both skinny and know where to walk and another friend has a Cat and stuff to rescue us if we get buried lol. Just feel very bad for her, and we can do this! I'm a P-Basic so can fix her, she tells me if I get hurt - I'm screwed lol, but we have all the personal protection equipment - we're good to go. Their little girl has been crying since for things she's missing - which is everything.

Many large garbage thingies set all over the place on the streets for people whose basements are still full and have to get rid of all their stuff. It's very sad. The farmers seem to be handling it alright, they're covered mostly .... except the loss of livestock of course is hard, as they love their animals. My town was half built on a slough (duh!) years ago, so it's going to take a while for it to completely get back to what it was. Just so much water!

My Dad always said there's no such thing as too much water or snow, but he lived through some dry years. I'm not sure which would be worse. He's probably looking down right now and still saying the same thing!

This person who drove his truck into the trench to help rescue the man was my brother, Calvin:

http://m.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/prairie-floods/article19390597/?service=mobile

Residents come to the rescue of Prairie flood victims