VERNONIA, Ore. -- On the edge of Vernonia, its impossible to miss the seven rows of neat white FEMA trailers. They are emergency homes to 15 families flooded out in 2007 in one of the worst disasters the area has ever seen.

Cami Archer lives here with her husband and three young children.

“We thought at the most it would be Christmas time we'd be able to get out,” she said. “We were hoping."

We first met Cami Archer in December of 2007 at the Red Cross shelter near Vernonia. Her baby girl, Miley was just a month old.

After moving in with relatives, the family next moved into a FEMA trailer. We caught up with them again last September. At that time they were hoping for a government buy-out of their flooded home, a chance to start fresh.

But the government offer was lower than the archer's hoped so last month they decided to take flood insurance money, instead and re-build. The home will get a new foundation that's nine feet high. Everything inside will have to be redone.

And the pressure is on now because the family will get kicked out of its FEMA trailer on June 8th.

"I feel like I'm making phone calls all the time getting things squared away with the lift contractors and the city. The permits... and you're busy with two active kids... you can imagine what its like trying to talk to me on the phone," said Archer as she struggled with her five-year-old son, Adrian.

Over at flood recovery headquarters, Dan Brown said he's trying to find 5th wheelers for those who are not ready to move. But he pointed out that FEMA did give everyone lots of notice.

Some neighbors also sought someone to loan a drywall truck to get the repairs done quicker. Details: Truck help needed

"From a logical perspective, they've given that long to do it,” said Brown. "People have known that its going to be happening, so they expected the people to plan ahead and wrap things up to meet FEMA's schedule. But as we all know with remodels and things like that, there's always unforeseen things that come up."

A year and a half later, the amount of work still to do here is significant.

The 2007 flood damaged or destroyed 800 homes throughout Columbia county.

The price tag to repair homes and infrastructure and schools could top $100-million.

A flood task force recently called to see if the Archers have a back-up plan if their rebuilt house isn’t ready.

"I told her, we just don’t have an option. I said, it's gotta be done by then. So, just pray for us that it will get done," she recalled.

In the meantime, the little baby we met after the flood, Miley, is 18-months old. An active reminder of how quickly time passes.