By Victoria Metzler – Kindergarten
I stayed home because nothing got flooded at my house. I played Barbies. I didn’t lose anything. I wasn’t scared I had fun playing Barbies. I didn’t go outside and look.

By Jaime Taylor – Kindergarten
Tell us about the flood.
Where did you go? I stayed home.
What did you do? I played with my doll house.
Did your yard or house food? How many inches? No flooding at my house
Did you lose anything valuable in the flood? No
Was there anything that happened that scared you? No
Was there anything fun about the flood? No
Did you go out and look at the flood and the damage? I just watched it on the news.

By Jeff Bernhardt – First Grade
I just sat there and watched TV. We looked at the damage and there was a mud slide.

By Keevyn – Kindergarten
We stayed at our house. My house and yard didn’t get flooded. I didn’t lose anything in the flood. I didn’t get scared. I had fun going to my Grandpa’s when it flooded. My field got flooded. I went out to see the flood.

By Ethan Walker – First Grade
I stayed the night at a friend’s house because of the flood. Our yard flooded and it almost flooded into the house. I lost one toy, a Spiderman action figure. I got scared cause we almost got dragged into the river. It damaged our car and we tried to go to Florence but the road was closed.

Lilli Guse – Sixth Grade
My house didn’t flood buy my cow fields did. It got up to 7 inches. So I got on my rubber rain boots and went outside. I made sure my cows were okay. Then I walked to my second field and trudged through six inches of water. After about 10 minutes I started walking back and tripped on brier berries and fell in more brier berries. After that I walked home and changed and wet to bed. The next day I went to Eugene to visit my Grandma. We had fun.

By Bryona Overton – Sixth Grade
I stayed at home for the flood because my house is at a high elevation. I stayed at my house until Friday. On Friday I went to Eugene. My house and back yard got zero inches. Since my house didn’t flood I didn’t lose anything. No flooding so nothing scared me. The only fun was no school. I did not check flood damage or visit the emergency shelter in Florence.

By Gabrielle Gibney – Fifth Grade
When it flooded I sat in my room and slept I didn’t witness the flood because there are curtains on my windows. I also didn’t leave my room because my food was brought to me.