FLOOD UPDATE: "The water is rising and it's going to come fast"

Shirley Laws is the textbook definition of being prepared.
Laws, 40, spent Saturday getting ready as the rising Ottawa River started lapping the shore and then the road running alongside this old lumber mill town. She was trying to save her riverside log home from the swelling, rising river.
Her family and friends built a five-foot sandbag wall around the home and had six pumps running in the basement. The water was slowly coming from the side of her home, too, from a culvert leading to the rive