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We do live in a small town called Millingen, on the river

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Rhine. The flood waters are rising quickly at the moment: the

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water is right up to the top of the dykes which ought protect

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the town, and our house is in great danger of being flooded.

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Everything now must depends on the dykes and whether they

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hold. I was at school on Monday when we were told we have had

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to evacuate our homes. At about one o'clock we went home to

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pack everything we could, and carry what we could not to take

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with us upstairs into the attic of our house. We were meant to

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leave by on midnight, but there was so much to do that we

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stayed until at 5 am. The gas had been disconnected so it was

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very cold. During the water kept on rising and in the end we

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were forced to go. As we had left we saw soldiers checking the

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houses to see if anybody was still in them yet. Some old

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people refused to leave. I do not never know if they are still

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there or not. Now we are waiting to see what it happens to the

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dykes. Will I go back and find what our house has been ruined?