North Bend and Snoqualmie Flooding

You may have heard about the torrential rains and snow melt that we had in my neck of the woods last week. The Snoqualmie Valley was hit hard.

I spent a couple of hours volunteering at my kids' school to help with clean-up. Talk about GROSS stuff! It was all mud, slime, and garbage piled up along the fence lines of the playground and surrounding school areas. The district had about 100 volunteers last Friday and another 60 or so yesterday helping to clean and get the schools ready for today. And YES, the schools opened today! I'm so happy that the kids get to go back after having many extra days off due to snow and flooding over the last few weeks.

More importantly though, there are many families with homes and businesses in the area that are impacted by the flooding. Being out in the muck yesterday really brought that home to me. I hope they are all safe and warm with a place to be until they can return home.

Photos
http://www.svsd410.org/districtinfo/newspubs/Flood%202009.asp
http://www.svsd410.org/districtinfo/newspubs/MoreFlood%202009_1.asp
http://www.flickr.com/search/?ss=1&w=all&q=north+bend+flood+2009&m=text

Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvrnA3BGHVE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqTnTWEqYS4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6WqTFlokkk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFpZRIsw2ss