This year the Assiniboine River flooded very badly. The Assiniboine River runs through the valley we live in. The people in Saskatchewan let a whole bunch of water out of a dam, so that meant that we were going to have alot of water coming our way. Down in our valley the water came up onto our fields and over our gravel road. That caused great distress in the Routledge family, we were forced to borrow our neighbors boat.
On the morning of Thursday, May 5, 2011 our basement had a tragic problem. We had found out that we had water all over our basement floor, we had to take every single thing out of our basement. The reason our basement flooded was because of the creek in our backyard, we have a small creek running in our backyard. The creek joins with the Assiniboine River causing the creek to backup because the river could not take any more water.
This has been a very interesting time in my life. We have never had a flood this bad in more than 100 years.
