Sandbagging in Hull, Illinois

So my physical therapist's (who also goes to our church) parents live in Hull, Illinois. A tiny town just across the Mississippi from Hannibal. The whole town was flooded in '93 and her family lost everything...even after they moved everything up to the second story of their house. The water reached 16 feet then. The water is supposed to crest a foot above what it did in '93 so Sunday we went and helped sandbag and build up the levee.
This is how close the water already was to the levee.

This picture is taken while standing on top of the levee. The water should be behind the farthest tree line you can see, it's already flooded this much land.
Jeremiah and Brice leaving from the other side of the levee to go help move furniture to higher ground from a cabin that is already partially flooded. Jeremiah said the cabin had a 15 foot high deck out the back door and they stepped directly from the boat right on to the deck. So the water was already 15 feet high in that area.

We mainly filled sand bags for the saddle bags that go on either side of the levee. Renee and I were quite the team.


This is my physical therapist (in green) who we are helping.
A huge thanks goes out to everyone that was able to help that day and to Heather and Jenica who came over the night before and made 50+ sandwiches and 9 dozen cookies.