Flooding!

There was rain...so much rain.  It was filling the rivers to the point they sent kids home early from school.  It kept coming.  We ended up having school cancelled for a couple of days.  The creek east of Orting flooded so badly the highway was shut down.  You had to drive up out of the valley and come down from the other side (adds about 45 minutes of driving for those people).  They uploaded drone footage and you couldn't even see where the road was for a lot of it.  The river closest to us got up so high it was almost touching the bridge and came up to the very top of the levee.  It was running high and fast.  You can see the bridge WAY in the back of this picture.

Daddy and I decided we wanted to check out the river so we were just going to grab McDonald's real quick.  I heard they cancelled school so I let Kayda know on the drive.  She was very nervous so we couldn't resist messing with her. 

She didn't appreciate the joke.  

We were never worried since we're tucked back away from the river and our house is actually built above the 100 year flood plain.  It was really fun to watch.  There were all kinds of cool pictures.  A coworker actually went onto one of the walking bridges on the other river and the water was going up and over their feet....on top of the bridge.  

It was actually really cool to see, we probably won't see anything like that again for a LONG time.  They're now working on repairing the levee where the water got to the top.  It was significantly eroded.