Thank you. The voice of experience is something to which I hope I will always listen.

The sandbag-in-the-toilet is new to me, though where I live is so flat that everything including the toilet would go underwater together. Hmm, of course, come folks try the defensive dam around the house thing, which would put toilet levels below flood waters ....

Backflow valves on water lines as well as sewage lines....

I am glad you and your family came through things okay.

Please consider more than two weeks of stuff, especially water.