One of the side effects of being in a natural disaster is we get to know our neighbors.

Around the corner from me. The county sent these people and their neighbors letters saying they have 10 days to remove their decks out of the way of spring runoff. If they don't respond with the date it will be done, the county will hire contractors to do it and attach a lien to the property for the cost.



Up the road from me, these people live in Iowa, and asked me to go take pictures of their river bank. There was some work done in that area, and I hoped some of it helped those people, but unfortunately not. It is about $400,000 worth of damage, divided over 4 land parcels.



This has been repaired somewhat since the flood. See that indentation on the bank? I think it has been filled in, but if I was the owner of that land, I'd get a hydrologist to tell me what could be done to make that area stronger.



I was tempted to tell the lady in Iowa this, but decided it's not my business. She can decide for herself.

Their neighbor, who owns this brown house, called them in Iowa and said the contractor hired to bring in topsoil to put around the washed-out roots of these trees stole the rocks that made up the little retaining wall.



Naturally, they were curious about that. I think the retaining wall got covered by the dirt because in a land of newly-exposed rocks, nobody needs someone else's little rocks. Now, I could understand stealing boulders out of someone's part of the river, and one of these days it's going to come to that.