and maybe new paints as well,

oh thats awful

When our work place got flooded a few years back 2" of water the cut the bottom 12" of all the drywall affected and sprayed the the stud area with a bleach mixture to kill any mold that may try to form later. After it dried, they simply re-sheeted the bottom 12" and mud, tape & textured it. I don't think we had molding, if it was the case I think it was the rubberized stuff you see in office buildings. Good luck!!! MY basement flooded about ten years ago, the pool guy didn't tightened done the filter top, and I had just converted the fireplace to gas, so when the pool turned itself on automatically, it found it's way down through my fireplace.

A creek near my Mom's house had gotten dammed up by logs and sentiment and flooded her garage and kitchen.

That's unique. I've never heard of a creek being clogged up by sentiment before.

Good for you James, for keeping such a positive attitude about all this.

I've never been one to let sentiment get in the way.

Do you live in Louisiana? My friend lives there and his house flooded too and all the streets around his house are flooded up past his knee's and he's 6'1'' =Z

We're next door in Mississippi and I believe that we got the leftovers from the same storm.

I feel for you. Georgia has been hit hard by the rain too. Here is my sad story to sit next to yours. I had four giant oaks give it up to the rain and lean dangerously over my house. I had to have emergency tree service. It took two days and a lot of hard work to keep the trees from falling and crushing my house. And the cost was astronomial. My house is safe. My yard is missing some beautiful friends. And my wallet is empty.