Livin' Our Dream...: The Great Flood of 2016!!

On March 8, 2016 it started to rain and we got 10" of rain in 18 hours. Daniel's neighborhood in Haughton has a drainage issue and the water came so fast that his house flooded that evening. He ended up with about 4" of water in his house and he evacuated to our house where he will stay until he can get his house back in order. The water came up so fast on Caddo Lake that we had the highest lake level since 1966! I parked my Honda Pilot in the garage on Friday evening, March 11th and didn't get it out of our neighborhood until Tuesday, March 22nd! The water got so high that we had to step into a boat in our back yard, boat around the back of our neighbor's yard to the road and tie off there to get out of our neighborhood. Fortunately, Kenneth had his Toyota Tundra parked out front and Daniel had his little Audi parked there, too. Some neighbors didn't get a vehicle out in time so we went to the grocery store one day and brought back groceries for some people. We loaded them from the truck to the boat and took them to the porch of our next door neighbor. They have a family staying with them whose house flooded down at the end of our neighborhood. Theirs was the only house that flooded on our street. Every morning, we would all load up in the boat and go to the front to get into our cars to go to work. It was an inconvenience, but doable. So many people lost everything and many did not have flood insurance (like Daniel) because they were not in what was considered a flood zone. FEMA did step in and provide much needed assistance to those people without insurance (like Daniel) so they could get their homes repaired. The water has receded and now the cleanup begins. I created a Shutterfly book with all of my pictures but below are a few that I wanted to document here so I could keep it in this years happenings!

March 10, 2016