This storm surprised us and gave us no warning this was going to happen. Towns are cut off from the world, roads are washed away. These people need help and a lot of it. This won't be fixed in a couple of weeks. It could take up to a year to get back to some kind of normalcy. If you don't want to give money to the normal resources, the farms need hay, the people need building supplies and a mild winter. It is heart breaking the devastation to the infrastructure and homes. People are refusing to leave for a number of reasons. My friend's parents aren't leaving unless they can get their horses ridden out, unable to ride the horses themselves. The scary part is that their free ride out will end soon and could take months to actually get out. My friend's parents can drive out but would not be allowed back in. It wasn't just one mountain river, it was many mountain rivers that flooded and breached banks. This was huge... We will fade from the news shortly, but we will continue to live in it. Please 'like' local fb newspaper pages so you continue to get updates on our situation.
Interesting on the timing of my moving away, just as this happened. In many ways, thankful because I was able to get my stuff out of my storage unit. Or I may have been forced to move all my stuff to higher ground and be camping next to my belonging which would be under tarps and me spending money I don't have to buy big plastic tubs to keep it dry and clean so I could put it back into the storage but more protected. My storage unit flood line was about 16-18 inches high. So, putting everything on pallets wouldn't have lend much of a hand. I would guess that a third of the units have water and mud damage to their belongings. There were other storage businesses closer to the river and all of those have damage.
Don't forget about us even if the press moves onto other things...
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