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UPDATE #1: The flooding in my city is much worse than I expected. I haven't seen all of it but based on some of what the news has revealed, we have some entire neighborhoods and trailer parks under water in the city right now. I think calls for evacuation were given out before hand but theoretically there could be many dead in these areas by our rivers if people didn't listen or didn't get out in time. Also, the town of Longmont south of here has been cut into thirds by the St. Vrain river as it's flooded over the banks. My Aunt and Uncle live there, but their house is higher up and away from the river, we will need to call them to make sure. We have family strewn all across the front range here, and many of their towns have rivers that are flooding and in various states of emergency it would seem.

UPDATE #2: My cousin Joanne and her children in the town of Frederick have evacuated their house because it's under water now, and they've moved to my grandparent's house where it's higher and dry. As far as I know we don't have any casualites or injuries in all of our family and friends along our flooding cities. I will text my friend Jade to see if her and her child are safe. The rain will pick up tonight and the city is watching the bridges to the south and east. Travel along those roads are blocked and the water levels are predicted to come up over the bridges tonight.

I live along the front range in Colorado and it's been raining and soggy for most of this week, and there's been a lot of flooding, especially in Boulder southwest of here where a few have been killed so far and a state of emergency is called over many areas. We're northeast of the worst hit areas and downstream of some of the heavier rains. However, this morning a state of emergency was called out in Evans which is a stone's throw from here basically. Our city and the smaller town of Evans are squished together and share a common swath between the rivers. The city is surrounded by two, the Poudre river to the north and the Platte to the south. We live on the east side of the city and further east of us the two rivers meet up. I haven't seen it for myself yet but supposedly both the rivers are breaking out of their banks this morning.

Mom's work is near the north side of town by the overflowing Poudre, and her and all the employees were sent home. My nephews are being picked up from school now and pretty much all the outdoor activities across the city this weekend have been cancelled including my nephew's football game. Some of the highways that enter & exit the city are closed for now, at least at some points since they bridge the rivers. Dad works outside the city and commutes to and from a town west of here where he works, so I don't know if that means he will be blocked from coming home or not. Probably not, I'm pretty sure he will be able to get safely through the west side of town just fine. The flooding is around us to the north and south, and the two rivers meet up east of our house, but the west seems just fine. The rain is going to continue through this weekend, but I'm pretty sure our neighborhood will be fine throughout the flooding, but we will have to stay in contact with friends and family closer to the river banks. The only problem today is making sure everybody gets home safe and is accounted for. For now the city is telling us that our water isn't compromised and we don't have orders to boil our water, yet lol. This weekend we will just huddle up, hope the power doesn't go down, and hope we continue to have clean water. We have candles and bottled water just in case.

Gaming

This week I've only been playing a little bit of Borderlands again. I started a New Game+ with my Siren character and did a respec with her skills. I have three different playthroughs (I've played a lot of Borderlands) but I've never actually done a New Game+, I've always just started a new game with a new character. New Game+ is awesome so far, it's really tough and all the badass equipment I fought for in the original playthrough is weak now. Especially my shield, I had an awesome shield but in New Game+ it's so bad that little Skags can take it down in a heartbeat. The game feels fresh again and there's all new scaled weapons and items to find, new higher level enemies, and some super punishing encounters.

This week I saw that a Borderlands 2 GOTY edition is coming in October and I'm super excited because I never played that game and I've been waiting for this to come along. I'll finally be able to jump into Borderlands 2 for the first time and have all the fixins too.

Reading

I've been doing more reading than anything. Since the last time I updated you, I finished two novels. A Storm of Swords has been wrapped up and it was fantastic. It was quite a roller coaster ride for my favorite characters and fans of the TV show will be in for a wild season 4 since it'll be based on the last half of A Storm of Swords. I still have the next book ready to go, A Feast For Crows, but I'm going to take a quick break from A Song of Ice & Fire.

I also read through the novel Ringworld Engineers by Larry Niven, the sequel to Ringworld. It was the book I ordered from ThriftBooks.com for cheap and it was amazing. A great sequel to the original. I love these characters and the epic adventures they're getting up to across the ringworld, I'll try to get the next book in the series sometime soon.

Since I finished both of those books I'm trying to get into The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. I've only read the prologue so far, but this weekend maybe I can put more time into it.