New Hair Cut!

So I went today and got my hair done. It was getting way too long for me and my roots were growing out. She put in dark and light high lights and I told her to really go to town on my hair and chop it off. Now it will be a lot faster to get ready.

The Payette River Floods

We have had so much rain around this area that it is creating a lot of flooding. The Payette River has caused houses to flood and roads are closed. The pictures below show some of the damage that the river has created. Luckily we are not anywhere near the flood zone so we weren't affected.

Flooded buildings

The first picture is a house completely surrounded by water. Luckily for this homeowner they built their house a little higher so that their house didn't flood. The second picture is the barn by the house in the top picture. The last picture is a house that didn't have very good luck. They have water all around their house. I know that if I built my house anywhere near a river it would be built up higher than the ground around it. There were a couple of houses that were built this way and are surviving because of it.

Killebrew Drive

The top picture is an intersection of Killebrew Drive which is a road right off the river. The second picture all I can say is, is it a lake or a field?

Flooded Roads

These are pictures along Hwy 52 or Sand Hollow Highway. This is the road that I use to take Caleb out to grandma's and grandpa's house in New Plymouth. I came home last night on this Hwy and I probably should have left Reuben's parents house earlier while it was light. All I could see was water on either side of the road. I didn't know there was water on the road and I hit it in the truck going about 50 mph and I just about had a heart attack. I am just glad that I had the truck since it has way more clearance. Anyway, sorry some of these are blurry but it's really hard to take pictures when you are in a moving vehicle. The first picture is the back road into New Plymouth. That road was actually closed down because of the amount of water on the road. There were two spots that had a lot of water on the Hwy. Some parts were about 10 in deep.

Payette River

This is a picture to show you how incredibly high the river is.

Pretty Sunset

So, while we were on the drive taking pictures of the flooded river we saw a really cool sunset. The first two pictures are of the sunset and then the third picture above looked like a beam of light was going across the sky. It looked really cool.