Dave
Well-known member
I am told that we have been on the National news with our flood on Tuesday so some of you might have seen it. It was the highest the water has ever been at my house. There were helicopters flying constantly over head pulling people out. My neighborhood wasn't too hard hit. There was a couple houses which got a little water in them. There is a rumor that a friend down the road lost his cows and I know the water got into his house. But I still can't get that direction to offer any help because the water is still over the road between us. A dairy just up stream lost most of his feed. Tuesday morning we were watching his haleage bales float by. I have a dozen or so hung up on the back of my place.
Up stream from me things are a lot worse. Houses completely gone. I know of at least 5 dairies that lost their entire herds plus an unknown number of small farms that lost their animals. Most of what I know about the damage has been spread by word of mouth. Amazingly the news seems to dwell on the fact that I-5 is closed so you can't travel from Seattle to Portland without a serious detour. Rural people with their life's destroyed versus urban dwellers being inconvenienced.
Up stream from me things are a lot worse. Houses completely gone. I know of at least 5 dairies that lost their entire herds plus an unknown number of small farms that lost their animals. Most of what I know about the damage has been spread by word of mouth. Amazingly the news seems to dwell on the fact that I-5 is closed so you can't travel from Seattle to Portland without a serious detour. Rural people with their life's destroyed versus urban dwellers being inconvenienced.
