Now I know!

I'm not a big TV watcher, but last evening for some unknown reason I had the thing on while making dinner. I put it on animal planet hoping for some kind of dog whisper show or something equally innocuous. I have an ear on that and my mind on dinner. My ears perked up when there was mention of Burgaw NC a little town not to far away inland that we have visited. So when the show returned I stopped what I was doing and hung out to see. Well, apparently the show was on animals in disasters or something because next thing I know I see streets that look like something out of Katrina and animals paddling through 10 ft high water...OMG. During hurricane Floyd water rose as much as 20 feet in Burgaw! Guys, this town is not coastal. This town is very much inland like 30 miles from us or more....These folks had put their cows and horse on the deck of their home when they where evacuated and came back 5 days later in a boat to check on them. The animals where up to their bellies in water on the deck, which basically was the second story of their home. They got them out by retrieving their dock from the river and loading the animals onto it. They then pushed the floating dock down the flooded highway with two fishing boats.....OK so I was thinking, "Hurricane? we just load up and head toward Raleigh." NOW, I'm thinking "Hurricane? no problem load up and head to TN in the mountains!!!!!"
This is why I don't watch TV. On the upside the animals lived. The old horse was even shown today at age 30 still looking spry. Now we don't live on a river but we are living in a swamp 8 miles from the coast. Aside from water wings I'm thinking we need to invest in a big old house boat with horse ramp and pens on the deck...the chicken house won't be to hard to put floaties on...hmmmm. The hay? well, it will be a total loss unless we store it on a dock in the barn that we can float out and tie behind the house boat! Nah..... TN seems way easier! Glad hurricane season is officially over for this year at least.