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The flood in my back yard....

So on June 2nd...Last Tuesday around 7:30 pm was one of my most frightening experience. It was raining very hard outside and then turned into a hail storm. The hail was the size of marbles. At first I thought it was pretty cool...for the first 5 minutes...and then it hailed for another 10 or 15 minutes longer. My garden looked like a swim pool and Cody decided to make way for the water to exit our garden area. I noticed Cody was running towards the house, I looked at our rock wall and all of a sudden water started bailing off my rocks like a waterfall. I grabbed a hoodie and charged to my neighbors on both sides of me and told them the canal right behind my fence was over flowing. There was so much rain the canal switched flowing directions. By the time I got back from informing the neighbors (3 min. later) I had a 40 foot river behind my house. With the phone in my hand I ran up to my fence gate and held the tarps up to help and calling everybody I could to come help. 10 miniutes or so longer my whole yard was ingulfed in water just below my knees. 2 inchs below the step to get in my house. It was scary to see 90% of my yard under water. I didn't know if it would get in my house. I am pretty lucky because my house was fine. I lost my garden, my rock bed with flowers but my house and family was safe and that is what matters the most. I am so grateful that my family and friends came over to sandbag and help with this whole mess. We all were up to 1 or 2 in the morning helping all the people we could that were getting flooded. Now whenever it rains I am a little wigged out and my heart beats franticly. Thanks to all that helped, thanks so so so much! :)