This house is not our home

Alright so Derek and I have been scouting houses trying to find the perfect "this house just happens to be $3.99 because you deserve it" house so we don't have to live in his bachelor house when we get married...needless to say we are still looking.  So Derek happens to come across a beautiful home in an amazingly low price range...it was a 4 bedroom, 2 story, in a flood area which we didn't think much of...check out the picture that the website shows:

Very cute right?! Derek and I were so excited to get on this and steal it while it was available! Also our friends lived about 5 miles away so I was already planning scrap book/xbox parties in my head for the next 2 years.  Our poor friends.  So then we decide to stop by the house unofficially...mind you it had been lightly raining for about 3 days now.  And this is the condition we find the house in:

Front "lawn" aka welcome to the marsh lands.

Derek checking out the mini ocean going on in the yard.

Yah I can see where the "flood area" note came from!

The backyard was like a stagnate river...very scary!

So then upon Derek's great idea of checking the house out on Zillow.com we came across these pictures of the damage done to the inside that the other site didn't feel the need to post:

Nice huh?

So it goes on and on, the sad pictures of the damage the high floods caused this house.  Thankfully we came to see the house while it was raining to see the minor damage in the yard on a small scale of how high the water can come.  Some poor soul is going to buy this house in the dead of summer and not know the floods they will face when the rain comes...and in Washington state...oh the rain, how it comes!

So the search for our home continues...