Wake of the flood, laughing water

(from Here Comes Sunshine)

Our area just experienced the worst flooding since 1997. Areas in our location of Dayton, Nevada were hit and people had to evacuate. I walked by some sandbags in front of garages just a half mile down the road from here, and was told by a county worker that water entered in the living room of one of the homes - and it looked like a lake surrounding it. Here in our Quailridge development, someone must have thought of it already and the whole area is on a raised dirt pad with sloping rocks surrounding it, and an excavated pit of dirt allowed that to happen. That excavated pit is now what I have dubbed "Lake Qualridge", but our whole neighborhood did pretty well. It was on the news all day, and areas where I drive by regularly in Reno and Carson City looked like rivers. As an adjuster who handles home damage, I imagine it is about to get quite crazy all over again. Even so, another reason to feel grateful that we are all okay and nothing was damaged here.