Flooding

While I know what we experienced at our house yesterday was minor it still caused quite a bit of annoyance. Our sump pumps are still running this morning but the basement is now dry thanks to my hard working husband! He worked literally the entire day yesterday with the shop-vac to get things dry. Very thankful that a majority of our basement is stained concrete floors so we don't have to replace flooring. We will have to replace some trim and a few minor things but at least our area rugs seem to be drying out! Smells a bit damp but nothing major. I am really feeling sorry for my home town of Lewisburg that is getting hit really hard. Makes me sad knowing there is a lot of devastation to come! Our front yard around noon yesterday.

The view from our front porch towards our garden. I haven't brought myself to go look at my garden yet because I am afraid of what I will find. First, lost all the corn to the silly bear and now will probably loose all my potatoes, sweet potatoes and lima beans to the flooding. I feel worse for my boys who have their pumpkin crop growing nicely. This is their big project and how they make money so it will be sad if it is completely destroyed. A good life lesson though. And really I feel trivial complaining about it since there are probably lots of farmers in the area who will have a huge loss on tomato crops. We will be fine but those folks who depend on their crops as their livelihood will have some difficult months ahead.

Towards our backyard.

What good is a bit of flooding if you can't have an underwear party and run through the humongous puddles! This patch of green was dubbed "the island."

Right out our front door. It looks way worse than it really was. Our house was not in imminent danger of flooding.

It was fairly deep though. They were not allowed to go near the creek. They were only allowed to play in the puddled water. The creek was moving too quickly, was too deep and I had a horrible dream the night before so they were not allowed anywhere even close to the creek! And if anyone decided to push me on it they were done for the day! End of story.

Sometimes you need to just observe the change in landscape from the front porch in your underwear.

Hopefully by the end of today things will be dried out thoroughly enough downstairs that we can get everything back in its correct place. If you do not live in this area please be praying for the folks who are loosing possessions, homes, crops, etc. Not fun times for a lot of people!