Water

Chilliwack is swimming. Well, at least Greendale is, basically the west side of the city. The hills are sliding into the valley. There is water everywhere and I'm sure someone in this town is literally thinking about, if not building an ark, the apocalypse.

We had a record snowpack on Monday and then back-to-back record days of rain and, presto, water, water everywhere. Not surprising really given we are on a flood plain surrounded by rivers, lakes, streams, sloughs, and ditches. All of which are at their peak and some of which are overflowing into basements and living rooms.

Mike is away so I'm basically alone with all the news and my usual Friday arts section so I was feeling a little swamped today . . . pardon the pun. And of course then the Sun and the Province want Chilliwack photos so I'm filing for them as well. In fact the Sun took my story today and, I just noticed, along with some changes have posted it on their site.

The Sun also used one of my photos six columns wide today along with a small one underneath, which is kind of cool (although they used some that weren't as good on-line). Even the National Post used one of the photos at least on-line to go with a flood story. Ironic that after all the flood stories I did in the massive scare last year nothing ever happened. And then snow and rain caused a real flood in three days and the big guys come calling for help.

Oh well, better too much news than not enough and better the big guys come calling than forget we exist.

Think I'll go chase some water tomorrow.