Levels of Concern

So I have gone through most of the different levels of concern in the last couple days. For those of you wondering what I have been concerned about, I am talking about my parents that moved to Fargo in January/February. With the looming flood taking the headline of our news in the cities every night, it's hard not to be worried. (Now I know how my mom felt in 1997 when I was in Grand Forks.)

Anyway, I call my parents at least twice a day to get an update. And this morning, after seeing a story saying that one of the levees had broken, I was near panic. But I felt better after calling my dad, who was watching a city conference when I called him and said that no levy had broken. I felt better to know that.

Dad then told me that he spent the whole day yesterday sandbagging about two blocks from their house. There is some kind of drainage ditch there and they created an earthen levee and some sandbags along with that. He said that made him feel better about their house (and area). He also said that they spent about an hour and a half bringing everything upstairs from the basement, just in case, last night. Then there were a few more things that he and mom were going to bring up which would take another hour or so to do. He said that if they did it for nothing it would just have created 5 hours of work, but if they did get water, then they saved themselves thousands of dollars by bringing all of it up. I think they made the right choice.

Tonight, my mom called me to tell me that they had checked on some website and it said that they were probably going to be okay. I don't know what website that was, but it made me feel better. Mom told me that earlier today they were on the brink of evacuating, but then they didn't and now they think they will be fine. I told them that if they needed, they can always, ALWAYS come here. I want to know that they are safe. They said that they have an escape route planned if they need to use it. That's good. Now, I just hope that they won't have to use it.