As we walk down our street, we noticed how there were no cars around, and not a single person or animal in sight. It was all bare with no sign of living or the community ever present. It was an uneasy sight, and it felt like Jason and I were truly alone. We finally got to our home when we noticed what all of the chaos is about and why the town was evacuating. There was water all over the ground, and it was rising. A flood incoming must have been spotted, and the town was notified.

The water was up to our ankles when we reached our front door. In a panic, we rush into the house. Water was rising quickly, and we were trying to figure out what to do. There is a flood, and we are trapped.

“We should get to the roof.” I say, trying to keep from fully freaking out.

“We should gather important things first, like food and water.” Jason responds.

“Oh, yes, right. Of course. Who knows how long we’ll be on the roof.”

Jason and I rush to the kitchen to grab survival essentials. We had to empty our schoolbags to fit various kinds of food in them, such as canned food and non-perishables. We also grabbed a couple of sports water bottles to fill with water. Jason went to grab a first aid kit from the pantry, in case we ever need it. I went to grab flashlights and batteries. We do not experience natural disasters often, but our school taught us on what to do in case of one.

Water came inside the house and was filling up fast. We finished packing our bags, and we made our way up the stairs as the water barely got to the first step of the stairs. When we reached the top of the stairs, I went to a hallway closet to grab some pillows and blankets for the cold night, and Jason went to pull down the ladder that lead into the attic. Jason went up the attic ladder first, and then started to take the pillows and blankets from me so I can go up the ladder as well. At this time, the water was halfway up the stairs, still rising. I climbed the ladder, and we proceeded to the hatch that leads to the roof. We went through it, and closed it behind us while the water was now halfway up the second floor of the house.

Now we wait.

Wait for what, though? For the water to go down, or for it to continue upward? Do we wait for help? Is there even some help coming?

What are we going to do now?

Jason and I take our schoolbags, filled with the essentials, off to rest a bit and figure out the next thing to do.

“Well… what now?” I ask Jason.

“Well… I don’t know. I guess we wait.” He responds.

I take a moment to look around the outside as we sit on the roof. I could see a couple of two-story houses poking out of the water, and all of the one-story houses are fully submersed. There is water everywhere as far as the eye can see. It seemed that the water stopped rising about a foot down from the edge of our roof. I open the hatch to the attic to take a peek inside, and I see that the water filled it up to about three-quarters. Many of the items inside are probably ruined now due to the water, so there is no point in recovering any of them. I close the hatch and sit next to Jason, who now has a perplexed expression on his face.

“What are you thinking about?” I ask him.

“I’m trying to figure out just how this flood even happened.”

His facial expression may seem like he is just puzzled, but I know it too well. It is the kind of face he makes when he does not have a solution to whatever problem he may has. Jason is clever, and it does not take much for him to solve any problem.

“So, let’s work through this little problem.” I say.

“Alright. Floods normally happen due to massive amounts of rain,” he starts, “but it hasn’t rained in a week and it didn’t rain today. The water seemed to come from nowhere.”

“Other than rain, how else do floods happen?”

“Stuff like a dam breaking and releasing water would cause a flood, but there isn’t a dam nearby, nor a river or a lake. It truly seems like water just appeared. How anybody knew beforehand so the town can evacuate is beyond me.”

Jason does make a valid point. If the water came from nowhere, how was the town evacuated? None of this made any sense, and I can see that Jason was still trying to work the problem in his mind.

We spend the next couple of hours mostly in silence. We did not talk often, since the conversations we try starting dissipates almost right after. Most we have ever talked about so far was how the school day went for us before the whole thing happened.

Night soon came, and we start setting up our pillows and blankets. Our roof may have a sort of an incline, but it is flat enough for us to sleep on it without any worries. Laying on the roof was not very comfortable, but there was nothing we could do about it. We hope that we do not have to spend many nights on the roof.