Snow and Flooding

This year we had so much snow!!  

We started to wonder if it was ever going to stop snowing.  For weeks and weeks the just kept falling and would melt.  This is a picture at our neighbors house that showed how high it was getting.  Shoveling our driveways was betting really hard because you had to throw the new snow so high.  Just when we thought it would never stop snowing it started to rain, melting all the now in a matter of a couple days and causing horrible flooding!

Typically the river is not very wide, but with all the flooding the river flooded.  

And suddenly the road looked like it went into the ocean.  The river overflowed for miles.  It was the worst flooding in years.  These pictures were taken on March 15th, 2019.  The entire town of Fremont and Valley were under water.  You couldn't get in or out.  This picture was only about 5 miles from our house on West Maple.  

Pictures didn't even show the extent of the flooding and the thousands upon thousands of people affected by the flooding.  We were able to go several weeks in a row to help the flood victims.  It was humbling to see their homes and just see them underwater and all their belonging ruined.  The boys were amazing workers whenever we went to help.  One week they even cancelled church and we went and helped instead.  We did go in the morning to take the sacrament and then went to work.  Kyle said after the project, "I'm legit proud of Mormons today."  It was neat to see how much we were able to help.  But sad to see how much work still needed to be done.  It will take years to recover.