What's left after a flood: mud and debris

The force of the river mowed these trees down.

The owners of this new house just moved in two weeks before the flood. That's all of their sheetrock in the yard.

This house was for sale. Good luck.

There is a lot of debris in the trees. That's stuff from people's houses. The river literally stole them from people.

Open House: no kidding. It also says "For Sale" a real fixer-upper, huh?

These folks have three children. Among the debris in their yard were cribs and high chairs.

The part of the river we live on isn't deep enough for much more than tubing (ie, we have rapids)

I'm assuming that this boat was parked to close to the river, and got washed away.

They may have THOUGHT the fence posts were deep enough, but they weren't... the river uprooted these, too.

The bridge is now open again. The river is still very high... usually you can hardly see the river from this view.

That house that everyone saw on the national news that was floating away? It was on those steel beams.

Eleven days later, and the news media is still here.

Today, the road crews got around to repairing the guardrail on the bridge. This guardrail was totally swept away in 1998... our last flood.

Yet another house that's devastaed

I love how someone painted "S.S. Minnow" on this one!

This is a new house that has not been lived in yet.

More MUD

Parts of people's houses.

More debris. You can see appliances and such in this one.

This house is pretty much gutted by the flood.

This is the subdivision entrance gates... or what's left of them...

This is a beautiful rock sign that says "River Enclave" You drive on either side of it, through security gates. That's all gone now...

More of the fencing.

The steel is just twisted from the force of the water.

Here's the call box. Kinda... totalled.

Someone's fence.

Utilities are still not working in these areas... here's why.

This new house has a huge sinkhole for a driveway now.

That wasn't the garage... that's the game room.

the sidewalk just colapsed into the ground. This sidewalk was about two weeks old.

The new house. Beautiful, wasn't it?

The other set of gates fared better... but still are damaged

This is one of the driveways into the subdivision. It's full of mud and debris.