floods

[winophite]

Well, for the first time in my 50 years, my town was hit by flooding, (aparently since 1913). At work several of us have joked in the past about folks calling asking what time we open, we're a hospital we never close...until this past weekend.
Over 10 inches of rain less than 5 miles north, 8+ west and 6+ east of town Friday night, with only 2.5 in town, and bam up came the creek and the hospital basment and half of fist floor under water. Mother nature sure can be tough sometimes. As always, the Man upstairs will help us through.

I live on high ground next to one of our high schools that's being used as evac point for some of the not too serious patients; the peole stranded in town, (all roads in and out were closed), are around the corner at a junior high. Fortunately about a thousand marines are near town stationed at Camp Attebury, (which was hit by a tornado last week thankfully with no injuries), staging anti-terrorist training this month and have been making urban chopper landings and such in the area. They were called in to help with the evacuation at the hospital. Also help from the National Guard and even a couple Coast Guard choppers came in for rescues. Nice response from our armed services!

Even worse, many poor folks with flooded homes. No one around here has flood insurance, not even offered at most ins companies. I'm afraid all our xray equip is shot, I may be out of work for a while! I'm sure leadership at the hospital will get things up and running as soon as possible.

Hard to put on a smile sometimes, but I'm sure a silver lining will emerge somewhere.
WP