Flooding

Hey everyone. I've been receiving emails concerned about how we're coping with flooding. Here, where we are, there isn't any. Oh, the back yard is kinda squooshy in places and we have some water in the ditch, but that's it. I hear that they're closing down downtown Des Moines - it's a good distance south of us - and that there's some flooding issues and water problems in various low lying areas and along rivers and creeks. We don't have that problem here, in fact our basement isn't any wetter than normal (we have a dank muddy cellar and it doesn't even have standing water). But, then again, we don't live near a river or creek or even a flood plain. 

A friend of ours who lives smack between the Des Moines River and a creek that feeds into it has been flooded out of his house. Another friend who lives in rural southern Iowa has to take a round-about way to get anywhere because the main road to town is partially under water. Another friend's daughter has standing water in her basement (as do a lot of people, I hear) and, really, those are the only impacts the 2008 Flood has had on us.

Bill's driving route north has so far been clear, even though some fields have standing water in them. Everywhere we tend to go we can get to without sign of water anywhere. We're high, dry, and just fine. We've been getting rain almost every night - last night is the first in about 2 weeks without rain - but other than making it difficult to get grass dry enough to mow we haven't had any trouble.

I hope y'all are managing the weather all right as well. Hang in there. It'll be hotter than hades and bone dry in Central Iowa before you know it.

As a teaser, I shall leave you with the current opening line of Stain of Corruption:

Jennit Perr's battered ghost stared at Dubric and there was nothing he could do about it.

Have a great weekend, everyone! Stay dry!