Flood-Not the Jars of Clay version

Our house flooded. We had 8 inches of standing water in our full sized basement. Pilot lights went out. Appliances stopped working. My mom came home from work and smelled gas when she opened the door. She went to the neighbor's house and called the fire department. They came and shut off the gas. Then they found the water. Pretty much everything is ruined. I drove home to help. We cleaned everything. We threw away most of the stuff and only saved really sentimental things. It was nice to look through old notes and reports from school. It was not so great to throw them all away. Everything was so slimy and gross.

Praise God for friends who were such a huge help to my mom. It could have been a lot worse and a lot more expensive to fix and dispose of everything. Also praise God that we were able to save most of my mom's old things. I thought they were gone and she was so upset. Her Alphabet Coloring Book made it through. My Kirk Cameron poster was tragically lost.