Another Flood

Don't you sometimes think, "I wish blessings would come as abundantly as trials?" We have another flood and several more hours of sucking up water from carpet.

We've been praying for rain. We haven't really had any for over two weeks. Well, we really got poured on tonight. Vance and the children and I went shopping for some necessities. The boys needed shoes and socks, we needed a few things for the get-together tomorrow and we needed supplies to put the toilet and bathroom back together. We stopped for fast food in the middle of all this (not McDonald's - we're boycotting) and we had a good time just being out together.

When we got home we were in the middle of lightning, thunder and a little bigger than pea sized hail - with a van full of groceries and other stuff. We sat in the van for about 30 minutes then decided to brave it. In the 15 feet it takes to get from the van to the door we were all soaked. The boys went to their room and found a flood of biblical proportions. They have a glass door in their room that leads to the outside and they saw about two feet of water like a fish tank just waiting to come in. Most of it had already.

We moved furniture and toys and other stuff out of the water as quickly as possible. The vac was already out because of yesterday's flood so I immediately started sucking up water and Vance put on a slicker, grabbed a bucket and started bailing outside their door.

It's hard to find the bright side on this one. Everyone had to help and it was already way past bedtime. No happy faces could be found. At least, this water didn't have poop in it :).

Vance is still vacuuming water as we speak. I'll go relieve him as soon as the swelling in my feet goes down a bit (lol). We'll be up all night I'm sure.