By Jordan Simington – 3^rd grade

During the flood of 2012 I got worried for my dad because he works at the mill and sometimes he goes up in the mountains and looks for firewood. At my granny’s a big branch broke a little and some branches broke. At Peggy and Allen’s big trees fell and me and Kaley helped them throw them on the fire. I live on a hill so I did not get flooded but down my hill were some rivers that had high water.

By Alhana McNutt – 3^rd grade

Randy’s Market was really flooded so that I did not want to go out of the car.

By Robbie Burnett – 3^rd grade

My house was flooded. It took out half of my Ninjogo’s and part of my Lego Hero Factor.

By Jesse Hughes – 3^rd grade

They evacuated Backstreet.  Backstreet got flooded. The culvert got torn out by the mill. The railroad tracks were flooded by the creek. The river went over the road.

By JJ Neece – 3^rd grade

The wind and flood is bad.  The bank was flooded really bad. The power was out. The lawn mower was flooded and the four-wheeler was tool. Tools were everywhere. We had to move the lawn mower. We got to get our boots on so we can get the logs.

By Erin Michaels – 5^th grade

My house did not flood but some of the power went out in a couple of houses. The river got up half-way past the road. A couple trees fell over and one of my neighbor’s driveway flooded. We had to wait to go anywhere for two days and we finally went into town.

By Baileigh Johnston – 5^th grade

The flood really did affect me because it was two feet away.  The water was flooding our back yard. It flooded our Grandpa’s friend Wes’ house. That was sad!!!! I’m sorry that it happened for my Grandpa’s friend.

Alexis Gierke – 6^th grade

The Flood

           It all started when I woke up to get ready for school. I was in the kitchen when Peter said to my  mom,

“Babe, Stacy and Medina are here.”

Stacy came in and said, “School is canceled. They’re evacuating Mapleton. You guys can come to our house. You’ll be safer there.”

We all walked down to our creek that was behind Jesse and Kaitlynn’s old house. It was still a creek. We decided that we would stay home. But then right after they left we decided we would go, or else we would be stuck at our house without any food. So we packed up our stuff and left.

I took a lot of pictures of the flood. I have a picture of the lower parking lot at Randy’s. I took like one ever three hours. My house did not get flooded at all. I had fun hanging out with my family and taking pictures.