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and now... flooding
Areas of our community were evacuated last night due to rising river levels, especially during high tides (the tides affect our rivers up to like 25-30 miles upriver). I am safe both at home and work and traveling between the locations, and can get to grocery store etc.
David was on call for super emergency/man power needs only needs with the fire department last night. He only had to go out to help with the search for a missing boy (he was found safe). Luckily they had enough people to help with evacuations, so he got to sleep. He went on shift with the ambulance district this morning.
They have closed the highway that is our most direct route inland because of flooding on the highway. However, they allowed the ambulances to still pass through for critical transfers to the larger hospital. David was in the back of an ambulance going through the high water, and then felt the back of the ambulance FLOATING. They were able to get through okay, but all the electrical in the back of the ambulance was shot. However, it was now clear to authorities that that highway needed to be shut down even for emergency vehicles.
Then they shut down the second most direct route (1.5 hours out of the way). Then the third (3 hours out of the way). That left David and his partner a 5 hour drive to attempt to return to the station. They made it about an hour before the ambulance just died altogether.
They were being towed into our hometown, and if they can't get up and running today they will obviously just stay the night there. We are hoping the flood levels will go down during low tides (this afternoon is the first test) enough to temporarily open highways to bring in specialist physicians from the large hospital (that is the #1 reason they transfer, the specialist is not in our area that day, etc) and emergency vehicles and get people out (hotels and shelters are nearly at capacity between the evacuations and those going on 2 days without power).
Regardless, now that they are unable to transfer critical patients, a big concern is patient deaths. Pretty much a paramedic's worst nightmare... being unable to get a patient to an area equipped to treat them.
Power is still intermittent here as well (we were out in town off and on for an hour this morning), but the wind is dying. We are still being pounded with rain, and landslides and flooding are causing the crisis now.
As always, T&Ps and vibes.... ready for this to be over.
Re: and now... flooding
Augh, stay safe! Please! T&Ps to everyone that are involved and I hope whatever David and his crew need to do to stay safe gets done. I hope its all over soon.
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