Friday, December 12, 2008

The Great Flood of 2008














These are some of the pictures that Todd took as he walked around. We were lucky & blessed to live in a building that did not get flooded. I had never seen rain that hard for that long. News reports said that the rain was falling (more like pounding) at rates of 3 - 4 inches per hour. It seems that every time Todd's parents come to town we have some type of natural disaster. Last time it was for Erika's wedding and they brought an earthquake with them. This time floods. Who knows if they will be invited back while we are still here :) The great thing that happened was that our power stayed on the ENTIRE time which is crazy because Laie is normally the first for the power to fail. We were very thankful for that. Tonight at Todd's graduation celebration, postponed from yesterday, the power did go off for a couple of minutes but that was it. Todd walks tomorrow in the commencement ceremony & then I leave tomorrow night to San Francisco where I will meet up with Todd & his parents 12 hours later. School's out and I'm ready to relax with family!!

2 comments:

Alyssa said...

wow, that flood is crazy! I am so glad that your building didn't flood. I hope you guys have a great Christmas vacation! It's always nice not to have to worry about school.

The Stradling Family said...

That is crazy! I'm glad that you guys didn't have any flooding.