LOL! My desk facing the window so I see everything that goes on on this side of the house. One year, a huge flood was headed our way so I tried to warn the neighors. I got eye rolls in return. Uh huh, some of their houses were flooded and we had someone’s kitchen cabinets on top of our deck. Even the old timers were perplexed how I knew about the flood. Well, duuuuuuuuuh, look up and pay attention!
That evening we had to call the sheriff’s dept. because they weren’t evicting people and they wrote us off. Their donuts had gotten soggy, yet. I was putting up pickles that night so between batches, loaded up the vehicles. I had a water level in mind of when to leave. The water hit the mark when the last batch came off the stove! Hubby just didn’t understand how important pickles were. We grabbed the kids and told the pets to jump in and called the grandparents to meet us on the way to the hills.
Sounds like you’re the woman to have in a flood :)