Whew!

Hey everybody... good news.... the town did not get washed away in the flood, but we did get 477 mm of rain in three minutes.... the dam at Rafferty was so close to breaking open that it was bowing in the middle and had actually moved 17.2 feet down stream... fortunately it didn't burst but that was only thanks to the 50 holes where the water broke through.... those holes would have been a huge problem except Rafferty has these big fish in it (something about water from Boundary being pumped in there and we all know that Boundary Dam contaminates that water so it creates mutant fish that are the size of Cadillacs) and the fish plugged the holes as they were getting sucked through thus preventing the rushing water from eroding the dam too much.... then someone saw Godzilla knocking over the smoke stacks at the power station while King Kong attacked from the north and climbed the water tower... fortunately they were both stopped by the alien invasion that took place at 3 pm.

Ok - you may have figured out that the truthful part of this report ended at the "but" in the second line. However, the paragraph above does give you a sense of the conversations that have been taking place around town this past week regarding the flood. Every story is bigger and better (which actually means "worse" in this case) than the last.

Now, don't get me wrong, the flood has been terrible for some... many people have lost their homes completely (water right up to the eavestroughs and higher in some cases) but the thing is.... most of us haven't lost anything (or very little by comparison)... yet people are losing their minds!!!!! It has been absolutely bizarre to watch. Normally rational people have said and done some very odd things in the last week.

Anyway - the good news - outflows from the dams are down - the water is receding and there is at least some hope that this will end soon.

As long as there are no "Sasquatch" sightings in the next few days I think we will be fine!