[JERRY2KONE]

Thanks everyone for the kind words. Actually we did not lose power this time. We live on an elevated hill which keeps us somewhat safe. The problem here is that the US Army Core of Engineers in their brilliant thinking sealed off one of our storm drains diverting flow so they can work on something else within Army housing, causing our housing(US Embassy) to receive all of the storm flows through our yards. IDIOTS. I was pissed that this happened and I have let our senior staff know it last night. We have had to suffer in some ways, because we live on their base, but this kind of crap is moronic and now everyone knows it.

We actually faired pretty well in this catastrophy, but the surrounding areas outside the base got hit very hard with flooding over 5 feet in most places. All of our gates were closed due to water standing well over 5 feet. It seems weird to me since the base is only like a mile or two from the Han river, so you would think that water would flow easily and not get so high. When we called for help our local GSO support teams could not even get to the base because of even worse flooding outside of our walls. This weather is somewhat normal for this time of year, but we usually do not have these kinds of porblems on the base. By the time GSO arrived the flooding had done its damage, so they were here late last night cleaning up the mess next store. It was frightening for the kids, but we kept them busy helping keep the water out.

When the GSO team arrived they were amazed that we were able to keep the damage at a minimum with more than a foot of water streaming through our front and back yards.