Safe for Another 500 Years?

It's been feeling a lot like Seattle around here.

This bucket was empty on Monday. It has been in my yard all week catching rain. That's about 12 inches of rain. Holy cow.

This is what our creek looked like: (it's normally 2 feet across)

Some wonderful guys- Aaron Gray of IHS Excavating and his buddy, Ronnie Hicks, held a big fundraiser to rebuild our road recently. They got about $50,000 worth of donated machinery, road base, and volunteer operators to raise the road about 3 feet. They just finished last weekend. Our driveway was BEAUTIFUL. It looked like a superhighway. For 5 days. 

Here's what it looks like today:

from the side

from the top

For five days, the flood waters pummeled it, and it finally gave way. 

The thing is, we wouldn't have a road AT ALL if not for these awesome guys. They re-routed the water away from the road so well that only in places where the road crosses the river is there a problem. And, so, we rebuild again. At least we have a dry house. That's a lot.