a picture's worth a thousand words.

reality sinks in when you see pictures like this.
i beg anyone in the tri state area not already helping to head to wynstone or the lake.

the island is actually the green on the golf course..

along the interstate.

people in yellow plus some are volunteers from my church making sandbags

my neighbors preparing to sand bag

one of the last houses on my street that they've been working on for three years.

i nannied at this house for a summer and spent multiple nights babysitting and this house and others on the street.

helicopters helping with sand bags weighing one ton

sheriff directing traffic in between north sioux and the dunes. the dunes was closed to everyone, even residents, so that workers and trucks building the leeve would not have to deal with traffic.

these pictures are from the newspaper's website (see more here.) and from friends pages on facebook. they're what made it "real" for me.