We spent a couple of hours getting all the main furniture back down. Letting the playroom dry out.
We tried to go out for lunch to the mall and to get water from school. Until we drove through our subdivision we had not realised just how bad the storm was. It makes sense as we are at the higher end of our subdivision and it slopes down from us. The traffic on the main road was at a standstill with lorries blocking all the lanes both ways. We thought we could probably make it out but were not sure how long it would take us to get back in - if at all. So we turned round while we knew we still could and headed home again.
One of our friends came round. Their house was flooded waist high. They only have one storey so most of their furniture was damaged. They saved their clothes and books but are camping out at another family's house. He told us one of our other still had power so we went to her house for the afternoon. She was busy charging computers and cell phones for our mission friends and delivering them back. What a Godsend! We had cold water, fans and a TV for our kids!
She took the kids for a walk to our friends' flooded house which they thought was brilliant and brought their kids back with her too! Rose and Joshua described this "sunken car" to us - which actually turned out to only have its wheels in the water! But that family did have their new car submerged in the dirty water.
Steve tried to get up to school again later in the afternoon to get drinking water and got there and back OK. Very strange cooking by candlelight.
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