Maybe youre sitting in your living room looking out your window when it starts. Maybe youre asleep. But youre definitely surprised. You never thought the storm would get this bad.

You carry on with your evening, keeping one eye out the window and the other on the news. Then your cellphone blares an alert, and you notice that the water in your backyard is a bit higher than it was before, than its ever been before.

Soon, water starts leaking in through the doors. You and your family rush to stop it. You grab towels, trash bags, tents, bags of cement mix anything.