How's McMark doing??, Napa is flooded near his shop Options

[MartyYeoman]

Anybody hear how McMark and his shop is doing?
The television showed flooding within a block or two of his door.
Any news yet???

[McMark]

My internet access just came back online. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/type.gif)

I just got back into the shop this morning and everything is absolutely perfect! We really dodged a bullet here. Water came up to our doorstep and that's it. WHEW! We are so lucky to be up a little higher than everyone else. The other shops on our street got about 2 feet of water inside. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/sad.gif)

On Friday night at about midnight, Allison and I stopped by the shop to check things out. Brandon showed up and we commiserated about the potential for flooding. Allison and I left at about 12:45 to get some sleep and Brandon stayed behind. There were no signs of flooding and I honestly didn't think it was going to happen ((IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/pinch.gif)). At 1:30 Brandon called and said that water was already halfway up out driveway and about a foot deep on our street. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/ohmy.gif) So I grabbed my dad's truck and quickly went down to start prepping. Brandon, our Landlord, his son, and I quickly put up the wood bracing in front of the roll up doors and stapled plastic to it. By about 3 am we had all of the roll up doors blocked off. Brandon and I were able to get two trips to get sandbags before the water got too deep and I wasn't comfortable driving my dad's truck anymore. So I parked it on higher ground, left my wallet, keys and cell phone inside. Brandon and I set to raising all the cars with whatever we could find. Finally at about 6:30 am we started the trek through chest deep flood waters for home. It was pretty scary to be walking through some of the water, because of the currents, but we made it just fine.

I slept for about three hours and then we got up and spent Saturday trying to find a way to see how bad the damage was. Sat was sunny, so the immediate flood danger was over. I was able to get a boat ride to the shop and look around. From the outside it looked like we had gotten 2 inches in the shop. Which would have been fine. So that was a great relief. At about 8 pm last night the waters will still too high to drive. So there was nothing to do until this morning.

Thanks again for everyone's concern and offers of assistance. I'm happy to be able to say that we're fine. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/grouphug.gif)