Thursday, July 17, 2008

When will it quit?!?





This rain is getting ridiculous! We just start drying out and progress is made on repairing roads and BAM! we get nailed again. Yesterday we got a couple more storms, only a little over 2 inches of rain but the damage it did is unreal, they say we have more coming today. We live on top of a ridge so other than a little water in the basement, we dont get much damage, but to get anywhere we need to go through the valleys so at times we get stranded. I'm posting a couple pictures that I took yesterday when an Amish neighbor and I went to check the flooding. My daughter had to come out to pick up Randi and drove through some of the water in the picture, she said she probably shouldn't have but was determined to get out here, she could feel the water pushing her car. It was so sad to see an Amish man standing just above the flood water, his family was on the other side standing in their driveway and the water was going too fast for him to get to them. It just needs to quit! If we could go a couple weeks without rain maybe it wouldn't flood so bad when we get an inch or two. I'm also putting a brighter picture up, this is looking across the pasture next to our house after the storm a week ago, after that one there was a beautiful full double rainbow and the sky was amazing! I always try to look for a bright spot but after the back to back storms last night there wasn't one. Everyone pray that the forcast is wrong and we won't get the heavy rain predicted for today!!!

Friday, July 4, 2008

Happy Independence Day




About time for an update. It's been so busy around here, first the floods the first weekend in June and then having the Amish replacing our roof and porch. I've also been babysitting my sweet little granddaughter, Randi as well as planting flowerbeds and driving Amish so I guess thats some excuse anyway. Today was a pretty great day, Corey arrived from Minot last night and today he, my granddaughter Kendra, and I took a long walk down in the pasture to see what effect the floods had on our creek. It was quite shocking, the creek has changed course and because the water went through with such force, the bottom land looks nothing like it did before. We did see several schools of chubs (small fish) and found a deep sinkhole that was full of tadpoles so at least the creek is recovering.
When we got back to the house Michelle was there with Brandon, Kerri and Randi so Corey finally got to meet his new niece. Then it was off to Culvers for lunch, there is no Culvers near Minot so Corey was craving it. We hadn't been home long when he decided we needed to go to LaCrosse so he kept Mom on the run most of the day. It's so awesome having him home, even for a short time. He'll be heading back Sunday morning but hopefully will come back in September for a real leave.