May 06, 2017
State of emergency
Our city, Kelowna and many around us are under a state of emergency. Roads are closed, entire apartment buildings have been evacuated as well as many homes. We went out for a few hours at noon today and came back to floods within our park.
This was the waterline on our dog fence in the rockery.
A few hours later the last piece of fence had been covered and a lot of the next loop.
The golf course is under water, it is in behind the building there.
The creek just East and North of us has spilled over its banks and is creating a new path, right down into our RV Park.
So the water is flowing towards the lake and helping it rise even faster.
We don’t have much further for it to rise before it comes over into our yard.
So we started to move everything from our basement up into the house. We worked for over three hours steady and then friends came to help for over 90 minutes.
Everything has been moved away from the lake. We can only hope that the creek won’t come from behind us.
It is late and we are exhausted but we spent a lot of money for tickets to attend a function tonight so we are going to change and just go. Nothing we can do to about the lake so might as well go out and have a good time.
The lake appears to be rising just a bit. We will have a better idea in the morning.
The forecast is for sun and heat the next few days so this snow will be melting.
We have done all we can do to be prepared. Hopefully we will be lucky.
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Wow, seems that a lot of places in Canada are flooding this year. Teresa and Derek who aren’t too far away from you have been evacuated from the campground that they manage. When they left the water hadn’t gotten to their house yet but since then they haven’t had any news.
Our home town of Ottawa is also flooding as well as Gatineau, Quebec on the other side of the river. It will be interesting to see if we have any flooding once the snow melts from the Rockies makes it way to us.
Hope you will be safe and not have any damage. At least you have a canoe to get around in. 😉
Ruth
I had no idea you have a basement! Wow, hope you will be okay. I know there is major flooding where my family lives in Quebec.
Good luck!!!
Good luck with the ring flood waters, hopefully you will be alright.
That’s just bloody terrible – I really hope things get better today for you. Fingers and toes crossed
IT’S SCARY AND YOU CAN’T FIGHT MOTHER NATURE. YOU’VE DONE THE BEST YOU CAN BY MOVING EVERYTHING ABOVE GROUND. NOW IT’S WAIT AND SEE. YOU HAD TO WORRY ABOUT FIRES BEFORE AND NOW FLOODING. CRAZY. PRAYING THAT ALL WILL BE OKAY.
HUGS.
Apparently there was an evacuation order for our address last night but it was rescinded an hour later….we never got the notice, I just read about it online in the news. We may be evacuated today. The only access road to our park is close to being flooded. We are less than an inch of water coming into our yard. The RV is still in for a few repairs so we don’t even have that…….back to packing up but with the intention of possible being evacuated.