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Well, God didn’t want to make it easy on us. This morning I woke up to find 4 inches of snow on the ground in addition to the flooding. On top of the snow, wind had picked up to around 20 miles an hour and the temperature dropped to 20 degrees: these are the makings of a blizzard flood! (Though locals note that this wasn’t actually a blizzard, just a good imitation of one.) This means a couple of very interesting things:

1. The river and the overpour over the dike has frozen- stopping the water from encroaching towards the house, and actually retreating it a little.
2. Created a new ice block farther upstream that has lowered the river levels here.
3. Delayed the crest- the predicted river heights have dropped significantly, only to rise again next week.

What this has given us is a respite, although an unwelcome one. If we had rain, we would have been in a world of hurt, but thanks to the snow, we have a delay before this melts to cause us the problems, but it has in essence slowed down the current problems. So now, instead of a nice balmy 50 degrees to do our flood prevention work in, we have to do it in below freezing weather with killer wind and frozen sandbags!

I have no idea what this means for school- which is now closed for pretty much the entire week. I’m getting further and further behind on school work, and I have comprehensive exam coming up. So if you notice any mental breakdowns in the future- you’ll know why!