Ned Johnson Quotations

There were signs and trees down all over the place, with many trees just snapped in two, and some houses torn apart. Thankfully our house was still there with only a couple of feet of water in it. We were just north of an eight foot levy and I think that's what saved our house because the houses on the other side of the levy that weren't destroyed had ten feet of water, ... In all, six houses in our family were affected. But we had the least damage. We were very fortunate.

Janie has Alzheimer's so she really had no idea what was going on.

What people in those flooded areas are doing is taking out all the carpeting and flooring in the houses and stripping off all the drywall and insulation to the four foot mark and cleaning everything that's left with a 10 percent solution of bleach to try to keep out the black mold and try to save their homes.

We had planned to stay home and ride out the storm, not really believing that it would hit us, ... But on Saturday afternoon we realized that it was a huge storm headed straight for us and that it probably wasn't going to turn away. So we made the decision to leave. Jacob and I spent all Saturday boarding up the house and packing. We packed as if we'd never had a house, bringing everything we could possible fit in the car, and pulled out of the driveway at 8:15 Sunday morning.