Mother Nature has a mind of her own it appears as Iowans prepare or recover from the recent floods. The local channels have been on the air continually since Thursday the 12th of June. Cedar Rapids and the surrounding communities have been just devastated by these floods. The damage estimates are simply astronomical. The town of Palo where my husband's uncle lives(d) is totally gone. The ability of such communities to recover is yet unknown. What do you do when the whole town is gone? Here in our little corner of the world, we had water lapping at our door but thankfully the river did not come in. As we exhaled we realized that the ground water that had no where else to go was seeping into our basement and not much we could do about it. We won't cry over our ruined carpet or the few pieces of furniture that were wrecked by the water. We count ourselves as fortunate for having come through such an atrocity with only bumps and bruises.
When the water comes to your door, throw a line in and smile because there is just nothing else you can do about it.
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