And it is Still Rising

Evacuations, road closures, bridges collapsing.  Our city has been turned upside down because of Tropical Storm Debby.  She has dumped record amounts of rain and everyone in Jacksonville is being affected somehow.

We are thankful for the down time - being stuck here in our house for days - but oh how I wish we could send some of our water to the people in Colorado who are loosing their homes to fires.  Such extremes across our country.

Whenever people come to visit us for the first time, they always ask us why we are up so high.  Not many houses in Florida are up on a hill.  As you can see, I park my van backwards so that when I open my door to get out - it stays open.  That's how steep we are.

 Well, THIS is why.......

Although, in our 6 years of living in this house, this is the highest the water has ever been.

Just about to our vehicles.

Here's a timeline with our mailbox:

Monday at 3:00

 

Monday at  6:00

Tuesday 10:00 am

Tuesday 7:00 pm

Tuesday 10:40 pm

This morning (Wednesday) 8:30 am

And here's one final view from around the corner from our house:

This is just one street over.  We are thankful for our hill.

The rain has stopped and Debby has moved off shore and is headed away.  Black Creek (what eventually feeds our cul-de-sac) has not yet crested, so we anticipate the water rising a little more.  Russ obviously cannot get out for church tonight and we will have to see what happens for Sunday.  Hopefully we will begin to dry out soon.

Until then we will continue to watch movies, play games and enjoy the fish jumping in our pond out front...... and out back....... and.......