Moments ago I woke up my computer and quickly found myself shocked seeing that which I screencapped above.
The National Guard is going door to door in my old hometown of Burlington, advising residents to evacuate because Gages Slough is flooding.
The home I grew up in is about three blocks north of Gages Slough. The grade school I grade school in, Lucille Umbarger Elementary is a couple blocks south of Gages Slough.
As I began typing this post text messages arrived from my brother and Linda Lou, telling me about the Burlington evacuation. Brother Jake says he is high and dry. I assume he is being high and dry at nephew Jason's house, which is in the Mount Vernon neighborhood known as Hillcrest, well above the Skagit River.
Linda Lou is also high and dry at her abode in the Hillcrest neighborhood.
I have yet to learn if the Skagit breeched the downtown Mount Vernon floodwall.
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