When it rains it pours!

This is a view of the "trickling creek" across the street from our house. It was not so "trickling" over the weekend!




Another shot of the creek. This isn't even a picture of it at it's highest. It got even higher than this. I was starting to worry for the houses across the street, but they were fine, thank goodness.




This is a picture of the grassy common area at the front of our neighborhood - totally under water! There is a walking trail that goes through the grassy area and people let their dogs off leash to run around in the grass. Not this weekend!!




This is another shot of the grassy area that is now a lake. You can see where the water came up so high on Saturday that it broke the fence and crossed over the road. They just finished fixing and repainting the fence last week - all for nothing.

We were lucky that we didn't have any problems, but a lot of people around us weren't so lucky, even in our own neighborhood. People all over the area were having to be evacuated and helped all weekend. A lot of the roads closed due to flooding, including the major interstates. Church was cancelled on Sunday because the Stake presidency didn't want people to try to get out with the road conditions. I don't think a lot of people would have been able to get to church anyway with the road closings. We just spent a quiet day at home making cookies and playing games.

School is closed today as well for the same reasons. They are expecting the water levels to still rise as the water runs off, even though there isn't any more rain in the forecast. I guess we won't know until Tuesday or Wednesday what the real damage is in the area. It will be devastating, with so many homes and businesses flooded and parking lots and roads full of cars under water. Crazy!!

Apparently this is the worst rain and flooding on record for the area. I've never seen anything like it. I couldn't believe how much it poured on Saturday. It was a bit scarey.

Adam and Ethan were on a boy scout campout and I thought for sure they would be home early Saturday morning because of rain, but they ended up staying and finishing their camping trip because they were 2 hours south of here and it wasn't raining at all. They went rock climbing and repelling and had a great time. Ethan (and Adam) repelled down a 200 ft. cliff apparently. Cool!! I'm glad Ethan is having so many great experiences with his youth and scout group here. They do a lot for these kids.

All I can say is that I'm grateful the Lord kept our family safe and sound this weekend. Levi said a little prayer on Saturday when he was scared that there might be a tornado and the Lord answered his prayer. I'm so grateful for that!! It's the simple things in life that mean the most!