Wish Us Luck!

Tomorrow Jaren and I are taking a "vacation" home to Terrace, BC. We are looking forward to spending quality time with mom and dad but...............................as you can see from the pictures below the quality time might be spent sandbagging!!!! It sure is a good thing that we are flying because the highway from the east coming into Terrace and the highway heading west to Prince Rupert are both closed due to the high water! We will try and update our blog while we are on our visit but I am not too sure if we will be able to get to Grandpa's computer! You may want to remember us in your prayers over the next week! I think I just might keep Jaren's life vest on him ALL the time that we are there! :)

Highway 16 heading west to Prince Rupert

Skeena River and a view of the New Bridge

Above: Skeena River - The Old Bridge
What an awesome picture!!
Above: Kalum River

No where to go!

Terrace Flood Update From My Dad

This is the view looking down the end of our street at the Skeena River. I believe that Dad took this picture from only 2 houses down from ours! We'll definitely have to remember Jaren's life vest now!!

Quoting from Dad's email this afternoon:
Here's some pictures I just took of the island just down the road. We were
able to move the piano out this afternoon. I guess earl's house is only a
matter of inches before he has any of the water. The river is supposed to
peak at 13.0 m tonight.

You know I'm starting to hate that song "How high is the water momma"

Upon talking to mom tonight she said that only 25% of the snow in the mountains has melted thus far still leaving, yes........75% to go!!!!

Thanks Mom & Dad for saving my piano!!

From Slides to Major Flood Watches & Warnings!

From major slides to flooding in the Terrace area. Our visit home this next week could be VERY interesting. Dad sent me these pictures today of the Skeena River. Normally under the Old Bridge we have a large rock area that can be identified where that little clump of trees are in middle of the river. I hope that the rest of the snow melt is fairly slow to avoid this major catastrophe that could potentially happen!

Terrace, B.C. - Skeena River