We wanted to show you what life has been like in Longmont the past few weeks.
Our home is up high, so we were lucky enough to escape damage, but there were so many
people who were not that lucky!
Flooding happened so quickly, that the road was washed out from under these 3 cars
as they were trying to drive across the bridge.
These railroad tracks are about 1 mile down the road from us
It will take a lot of Brayden's Legos to fix this road
The National Guard was in full force
People had to do some unscheduled basement renovations, and put all the debris on the street for pick up
Many of the roads were shut down, so the entire school district was closed for a week.
With the kids out of school, we put them to work.
We went to the neighborhoods that were flooded, and helped them empty out
everything from their basements.
Brayden found a 14 inch fish in one of the basements! We found crawdads, and logs, and all sorts of things that should be in a river, and not swimming in a basement
We got a little dirty
When the kids went back to school on Thursday, a group of moms from church
got together to go help families that were still under water.
Justin has been up in Cheyenne for his two week annual tour for the Air Force reserves, but did make it down this weekend to help.
Unbelievable! Sooooooo glad your house was spared and that you all were willing to get out there and help out many of your neighbors.
ReplyDeleteHoly Moly that's awful. Tell your kids I am proud of them for lending a hand. It always makes me teary eyed to hear about people helping other people in need. Did the people in the three cars survive?
ReplyDeleteall 3 lived, one had a neckbrace i saw on the news
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