Flood Damage Update

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The rains have ceased, the culvert has now been cleared, water is no longer rushing down the road and the county has moved the mud and rocks off to the side of the North Shore Road and cleared a path into the community.

We've taken a look around the community and all seems okay except the damage you see in the pictures.

Brooke Scheib said it so well in an email she sent me, "my heart is heavy, but we will all pull through and make our community pretty again." That is definitely true. That's the kind of community we are all blessed to be a part of.

Thanks to those here who have done whatever could be done to help, to include surveying the neighborhood, taking pictures, digging in the rocks and mud to uncover culverts, making calls, sending emails or posting information on the blog. Thanks also to those of you not here who have offered your support via emails and calls.

The Shorehill sign used to be taller than Andy. Hopefully this gives you a perspective of how deep the mud was in the entrance to the community.

You cannot currently get to our mailboxes as the dirt and mud have been piled even higher than these pictures show. This picture was before they moved the piles of mud and rock off the road. The piles are as high as the mailboxes.

As you can see from the pictures, the beach will also need alot of clean up.

This was taken from Ron and Gayle's deck. You can see the water and debris running across North Shore Road and at the top of the picture how brown the canal was with mud.

Taken from the back side of Brooke's cabin. You can see how deep the revene is that was created from the force of the water and it's path down to the entrance.

Water, rocks and mud rushing down the entrance to the community.

Pictures don't truly portray the event nor the damage. This picture shows how wide the revene became on Brook Drive.

We have contacted Pat at North Shore Nursery and we are on his waiting list. I also have a call into my brother-in-law who is an excavator to see if he would be available for the job. We have also talked about the possibility of renting a piece of equipment and doing some of the work ourselves. My thought is that there will be plenty for us to do but that it would be best to have someone come in and do the earth moving for us and lead us as to the best approach for tackling the project. Once we have a definite plan I will post it on the blog. We will need to have all the help we can get putting things back together but one of the first things will be moving the mud and dirt and rock back into the revene created on Brook Drive.

Your thoughts and comments are welcomed.