March 26th, 2009 by Heidi

To say things are a little chaotic around here is being mild. The city is in a major state of emergency. The river levels are rising so quickly.

I haven’t been able to keep up with updating several blogs so I’ve chosen to keep up the biz blog with updates since it has RSS feeds in a few places. I’m writing here now to direct anyone to that blog and other info.

Follow what’s going on with us at www.heidismithphotography.com/blog

Helpful city links with flood info:

Newspaper: www.inforum.com

Flood Levels: www.ndsu.nodak.edu/fargoflood/

Valley Flood Watch: www.valleyfloodwatch.com/

Currently, I’m trying not to have a freakout. We live far enough from the river that we shouldn’t be effected. But the river is going to surpass record levels and nobody is certain how the dikes will hold up. We are optomistic and hopeful but we are taking precautions anyway. Today we will be getting things out of the basement and gathering important things and preparing for evacuation if need be. Gosh I hope that is not necessary but we need to be prepared. Having a zoo within our house will leave very little room for taking anything with us. me, 3 kids, 4 cats, 2 dogs. Talk about chaos. But I think as long as things are upstairs that we shouldn’t have to worry about personal belongings and all of us creatures will be ok. And that’s the extreme, I don’t imagine that we will have to do that but I’m getting our ducks in a row. No need to fret, we’ll deal with what comes our way. We’re just hoping nothing comes our way.

Thank you everyone who has called or emailed or commented to check and see how we’re doing. We appreciate  your support and prayers and well wishes. Fargo is in great need of volunteers. With schools being closed, the numbers are harder to get as there are childcare issues. I hope everyone that can go out, goes out.

So please follow my photography blog for more updates for the time being. When things mellow out some I’ll get back to posting here. Thanks so much!