Flooding

As most of you know, we are currently living in Jons parents home. The river runs behind our house. There is also a canal to the east of us that branches off the river. The other night, there was a lot of rain during the day. It was about 10:30 PM and I checked KSL.com before I went to bed, I noticed they had breaking news that there was flooding in Morgan and Weber Counties. It made me nervous, but clicking on the story I saw that it was in Eden, so assumed we were okay. I immediately did a facebook post, which said "I think I have posted this before, but I still get a little uneasy when I hear about flooding in Weber County. I know it's not where we are, but still, slightly scary!" Following that post I went to bed.
We were sound asleep at 1:00 am. All of the sudden there was some very loud, very strong, pounding on our door. Our nephew currently lives in our basement, so our first thought was that it was him and there was a problem downstairs. Jon went to the door while I laid in bed. All I could hear was a womans voice saying (now given I was only hearing bits and pieces) "flooding, water rushing, check property, water has made it to the bishops house" I panicked! Jon comes back and immediately starts getting his clothes and boots on. My cell phone then rings. It was our next door neighbor seeing if we were flooded, she said she went and checked and the water had made it to their horse corral. I told her we hadn't checked yet and were on our way out. I grabbed some flipflops and followed Jon outside.  I was relieved when we went into the backyard and saw no water. But as we further investigate, we see that on our next door neighbors property, the water had broken over the banks of the river and was heading downstream away from us. Then we look to the other side of us, the other next door neighbors backyard is a pond. We go to the front of the house and there is a river of water flowing down the street and people everywhere shuffling around trying to figure out what to do.
We spent the night filling sandbags and got everything taken care of by 4 am. We were very blessed that the water didn't touch the property for some very miraculous reason. There were a few homes whose basements and crawl spaces were flooded, and I am sorry for them. What happened was the water levels rose and was rushing so quickly that a pipe between the canal and river backed up with debris and the canal overflowed. The river was also higher, which is why it broke up on the other side. Something like that teaches you a lesson on prepardness, we realized we aren't as prepared for disaster as we would like to be. Oh, and another thing, the night this was all taking place, Kenzie decided to sleep through the night for the first time ever, of course it's while I am up all night, dang girl! I have posted pictures, you may not be able to see some of them as well as it is 2:00 AM, some of them are of that night, and the rest of them are of the next morning.
 

Our neighbors backyard.

This is where the water broke the banks in our next door neighbors yard, the actual river is really behind those trees.

Filling the sandbags. There were actually 40 inmates that came and helped out as well. Can you tell which ones they are?

This is the neighborhood street in the front of the house.

The street once again.

The next morning, this is the water that broke over the banks. Once again, the river is behind those trees.

The leftover sandbags, they will stay there prepping for the spring and summer seasons.

The sandpile they also left so we would be prepared in case this happens again this spring.

The river.

The kids figured out how to make the best of the situation.