Trapped!

Here's our situation in Norfolk & Nebraska at 8:15a.

• We are in a flash flood warning, winter storm warning, & high wind advisory.
• We are in a flash flood warning until 6:00p, Saturday.
• Right now it's sleeting; this is supposed to turn into a "wintry mix."
• Lois is home; Christ Lutheran School cancelled school, as did Norfolk Public & Catholic Schools, Lutheran High Northeast, along with ALL schools in Northeast Nebraska.
• The Orphan Grain Train office is closed.
• Police are evacuating homes in areas of Norfolk--something that we NEVER remember happening since we moved here in 1997.
• Several schools have been designated as emergency shelters for those who have had to evacuate.
• Highway 81 & Highway 275 are closed; all routes between here & Omaha & Lincoln are closed.
• I was planning to head to Lincoln later today, since I have a Gamblers Assistance Commission tomorrow. I'm grounded.
• I was also planning to travel to North Platte for a Lutheran Laymen's League/Lutheran Hour Ministry convention on Saturday; there is virtually no way I will make it there.
• The Elkhorn River, which runs just south of town, is rising rapidly. 
• We're seeing videos of levees that are threatening to fail outside Norfolk.
• I-80 is closed across Nebraska from Kearney to the Wyoming border.
• We are very blessed that we haven't had any water problem at home; many people are reporting flooded basements.
• Bel Air School, which is a block west of us, is one of the designated shelters, so we assume our neighborhood is "safe."
• Skyview Lake, which is a half-mile southwest of us, was reported to be out of its banks.
• We've had steady & sometimes heavy rain since Tuesday evening.
• The ground is still frozen & still partially covered in snow, so the water has nowhere to go.