Well everyone I'm back now.
We lost the house. I (along with my Grandfather and a family friend) decided to ignore the evacuation order. We had had to build the dike on frozen ground, and once the water got up there, it melted enough for the dike to be just short of useless. We tried to keep the bottom basement (floor 1) from filling, but we couldn't do it with two electric and one gas powered pump. I moved all of my fish up to the highest (4th) floor. The first floor filled up slowly (took nearly a day), a bit after it got to the second (where my bedroom is), the basement windows broke, and it came up pretty fast. We had to cut the power. I had been putting an outrageous number of air-pumps in the tanks, my fish are probably dieing about now. The house got cold pretty fast without the heater, but we stuck around for another half-day. We finally decided to ask for an evac. The water was just getting to the third floor, and there wasn't anything that we could do. The deciding factor was getting the tortise, Thumper, out. He wouldn't have lasted much longer without heat. We got everything up as high as we could and put a red-flag outside. We were expecting an air-boat to come, but a helicoptor showed up instead (I'll never insult another Coastie as long as I live). After sitting down in a basket sitting in ice-filled water (it had been blizzarding, heh. It still hasn't stopped snowing), we got a ride out. I'm staying at the house of a Friend of my Dad's.
My sister is at a friend and has our two youngest cats. The other three, along with our friend's four cats are still at the house. He has a boat, and will probably be visiting everyday. I found my knife before I left, but forgot Harold (he'll be fine). We'll be moving into the house of a guy we know from church on Sunday.
Most of our stuff we be okay. My Lesabre is probably totaled. Along with our newish Cadalac CTS. The Cadie had insurance, but my Lesabre had nothing more than liability. Our pickup made it out fine. My dad is going to apply for emergency leave, and will try to be back around the 12th. If the water gets much more than a foot over the dike, we'll lose a lot of clothes (all of the uniforms I found downstairs) along with the wires that I threw on top of a folding bed. I won't be having real internet for a while, so if someone could take my spot in the games, I'd appreciate it.
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