It's 9:30 pm and we're home with no prospects of going out.

Big surprise there- it's Tuesday.

Still, I'm having a hard time settling in for the evening. It might have something to do with the fact that this is the first night since Saturday that we haven't been out filling sandbags.

You see, our town is pretty much flooding. It's a lot like the Lost City of Atlantis, only instead of an ocean, it's more like the snow on the mountain melted super fast and caused the creek that runs right by our house and through our city to rise higher than it should.

Also, the water is brown and muddy. So I guess it's not like Atlantis at all.

Moving on.

Saturday evening we got a call notifying us that we might need to go help out in a potential flood situation a few blocks away. Twenty minutes later, a knock at our door alerted us of the immediate need for help in our own complex.

We helped our neighbors lay sandbags for an hour or so then decided to check out the situation we were called about. We arrived to find about fifteen people at the home of an elderly woman who had the pleasure of the aforementioned creek running through her backyard.

We joined the ranks and filled sandbags until 3:00 in the morning.

The next day I could hardly move and the palms of my hands were bleeding from a dozen tiny cuts. Nothing a little rest wouldn't help, though sadly rest was not to come as the flooding was steadily getting worse.

Luckily this time we were only filling and hauling bags until just past midnight.

I won't regale you with lines of false hope of rest the third day. On Monday we joined many more volunteers to fill bags yet again, bringing the combined total of bags filled by the Whitney-Jason Sandbagging team to nearly 1,000.

Thankfully, the flooding in our area is now under control.

I can only hope that my sore muscles will soon be as well. As it stands, the range of motion in my thumbs doesn't even allow me to text.

Although I guess I'm okay with non-functioning joints if it means we don't have to see any more images like these:

All image via ksl