Today we saw about 2" in 12 hours. I like it!

It is going to be around a long time though. My guess is I will boat until about May 12th. We'll see how close I am. Mark your calendars!

Oh, and I promise I will try not to take any more semi naked pictures!

  Carl, the water looks so close to your house ??? How far is it now, your basement foundation Okay ie. no leaks ? Hang in there bud, how is Luke doing? The Lasalle river is 10 feet away from my house so I sandbagged it yesterday, it went down a couple inches this morning and back up tonight, my sump pump goes every minute, the foundation is 100 years old so it leaks and the river water table is higher.

The river is higher this morning and the field are filling around me, time for more sandbagging...The Lasalle river goes in the Red and the Red can't take it anymore, you know what I mean...When is it gonna go down ???

Luc should be fine, he is protected for 97 plus a bit. We are currently 19" under 97

A while ago someone asked about tube dike technology. At that point it was new here and was doing ok but it has proven to be a failure here now.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2009/04/15/mb-flood-tube-dikes.html

I had posted this a while ago but in the wrong thread. I posted it in the full size Pontiac registry thread! If I do that very often you guys will think I've lost it from being here on the island too long!!

This is my friend's dad summing it up very well. I don't care if you guys are getting tired of hearing this from me, you are playing a big part in helping me stay sane right now. I don't want to think of my life without internet at this point. I tend to joke around but the reality is, this man sums it up very well.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/special/floodwatch/nine-days-of-being-marooned-driving-couple-stir-crazy-43086272.html

One thing I should do is give numbers. If I happen to lose internet for some reason, (should be ok, it's wireless) my home number is 204-746-2841 and my cell (which I only have on if I'm in the boat or if the land line should quit) is 204-746-4903

I find this interesting. A lake this size has a pretty good current. This is just a cheap video (no sound) but it shows a large board floating against a decent wind. This is right behind our house.

Your assesment on water level is pretty close. I dipped it and it's about 3 1/2! Not bad for a guess over 1000 miles away!

We won't be drying out any time soon, sadly.

Updates coming later this evening. Right now it's evening news time.

Well, our neighbour and I boated out the 3 1/2 miles to dry land this afternoon. Even there it's barely dry land any more!

We got to the highway where our vehicles are parked, pulled up the boat and tied it to a highway sign.



After driving into town to buy gas, groceries etc. I picked up our 14 year old son to come back with us. Now I have company here. YAY!!!

Anyway, when we got back to the boat, it was close to swamped. The filthy flood water and straw had washed over the back when the waves hit it. The waves were fairly high today as it was fairly windy. I began manually bailing the boat when my neighbour suddenly said "hey, there's a pump in my truck" so we did it the lazy way. How's this for a bilge pump???





Anyway, once we got it dried out back home 3 1/2 miles against wind to settle back in but at least no more being alone!!!

What does Lloyd Robertson say each night? "And that's the kind of day it was this Thursday April 16th" or something like that.

All told, it took me 4 hours to drive a total of 14 miles, buy meat, lettuce and buns, fill 2 boat gas tanks and pick up the kids at school.

And some of the guys at work wonder why I've quit coming to work until this is over.......

There is NO way I could manage an 8 hour job right now and get this all done too.

I don't care who you are thats funny

Funny! Carl I noticed you trapped your guest that landed on your Iland. Hope things went well for you?