Submitted by brian on April 27, 2009 - 5:50pm.
Two weeks ago yesterday afternoon, a small levee broke several miles away from my mom's house. She happened to be on the phone with my sister when the surge of water arrived. In the span of 15 minutes, she went from watching a typical high-water situation, with waves lapping at the street's edge, to having more than a foot of water inside her house. The phone went dead. Within minutes, a county dump truck came around to evacuate her and her neighbors on that little cul-de-sac. Neighbor friends let her stay at their house as she came to terms with this unprecedented event.
