Well...we flooded

It's not bad. At least, not yet. Charlie went downstairs this evening for the nightly inspection and found a water welling up through the whole downstairs. It's ground water seeping up through the cracks in the foundation, so we can't even do any clean up til the pressure equalizes -- the more we bail out, the more will seep. We're 40th on the list for bail out and clean up services, but they're estimating they won't even try for 4-5 days since the rain is continuing til Thursday at the least. Please send "anti-rain" vibes up here to Alaska...the borough is now officially a state declared disaster area. And Bush is flying in tomorrow, so security on the base is going to suck. Could life get any better??? Actually we're counting ourselves lucky...there's a 1000 people that can't even reach their homes right now and some 300 homes are not livable. We're holding on just fine and are blessed with the luck of the Irish so far!

All I can say is thank goodness for nesting, because one week ago the basement was a wreck of boxes and our mattress was still down there from the June heat wave. My preggo little heart couldn't take it anymore and Charlie cleaned it up last weekend. Whew. Then we were prepared and moved everything but the plastic binned stuff, so we palletized that tonight to get it out of the water. All we can do now is wait and hope that it doesn't get worse...our friends have 5 inches of water and he's deployed while she visits family down in the States so they aren't even able to salvage stuff themselves.

Here's Connor playing along the shore of Polaris Lake. His normal rock throwing spot is under about five feet of water, so he had to content himself with the picnic area.






And just because he's so darn cute...how can you be too pissed about flooding when this little cutie is smiling??