Flash Flood, Too close for comfort

We had the exciting flash food on August 1, 2007. Sara had called Kevin and told him the river was extremely high and Kevin said it should be fine. Rachel (our cousin and renter) came over and wanted to take pictures of the river down by the bridge since that was safer. We walked down to the bridge, waving at some fire trucks as they went past.

Rachel was taking video and Sara saw water coming into the yard of the first house by the bridge and she yelled at Rachel to run, and so the running began. Sara wanted to knock on the door of the house since the people didn't know it was flooding. Rachel said she would do it and Rachel was surrounded by water in seconds and had to wade in thigh deep water to get out (the camera was her motivating factor to jump the fence).

As we pulled out to the road, we looked back at the bridge and happened to see Kevin attempt to cross the bridge. He was right in the middle of it with water up to the floor board. He backed out and was stuck on the other side. We are lucky the bridge didn't take him down or our Bronco. (He has a strong mental note from his wife to NEVER do that again!) The flood subsided and three homes were flooded and our pasture flooded almost to the fence next to our driveway. We were blessed.
We took pictures of the rodeo grounds, the bridge without water anymore, our yard, and that white car that landed several feet higher than it's origin.
Derrick continues to pray everyday for every meal that "those big muddy waters won't come back". Good thing too.