Believe it or not it's going to be visually beautiful here sky-wise for a while yet today but last night was rough and the next few days should be as bad as our last flooding.
As we did last time, we're evacuating areas in my county and will be setting up patrol on the railroad tracks. While it sounds unbelieveable in this small area, orders are to detain/shoot looters. If I get a chance I'll take some pictures of the police force on the tracks in one small town I'll be in today.
I worked the last tetanus shot free-clinic and it looks like we'll probably be holding one again for people who didn't receive theirs a few weeks ago.
Depending on the rising water there is a good chance I'll be losing power again and will be under a boil order once it comes back on.
I work 3rd shift and last night was filled with disaster preparing more than anything. We've got a lot of damaged trees, trees uprooted due to the saturated-boggy soil and even some (dead) downed power lines.
If you remember my pictures of Dickey Bubs and Dollar General, the farm store is already moving their equipment to higher ground at the gas station and last night and today (for as long as the parking lot is safe)Dollar General will behaving a huge less than half price sale in order to move inventory.
I've been home for probably half an hour now, long enough to shoot out some emails and update people (thanks for asking and keeping us in your thoughts! I'm a little west of lagadvocate and angoragrl.. I'm not sure how they are fairing yet) and make a few calls.
I am absolutely ON the Missouri and Bourbeuse Rivers.
In order to be more comfortable this time I'm splitting my animals up among friends and will be checking Animal Control to see what I can do before heading back to work for a couple hours. I should be able to sleep some this afternoon before more *fun* begins.
We're hoping this will be a HUGE false alarm but I just know we have too much water already for all that has fallen not to greatly affect people in the immediate area once again.