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RT members affected by this past week's rains -- how did y'all fare?
We did well. We got between 8 and 10 inches of rain in 4 days, but our land is high and drains well. We do have lots of rivers and streams around that are flooding, and we didn't go to the Bible class in the city or to the church in the country today, because a lot of the rivers were still rising as of yesterday. Some aren't even supposed to crest until Wednesday. The road the church is on was actually closed until sometime this morning, because one of the rivers had inundated the road.
There is a lot of flooding in our region. The lowlands about 10 miles away was like a sea. I know some of those homes got water in them. The river closest to us was some 10 feet above flood stage and still rising yesterday. There were lots of road closures and cows all huddled together because their pastures were largely under water. A larger town about 40 miles away had neighborhoods full of house islands, and some 2500 people had to be rescued because nobody expected the flooding to be that bad. It's worse than the most recent bad hurricane (Isaac), and possibly worse than the rather epic flood of 1983, which put 5 feet of water inside my best friend's house -- which was high enough up off the ground that you could walk under it.
I know we have at least one member who got even more rain than we did.
Oh -- and this picture may or may not have been taken in a town near us:
We did well. We got between 8 and 10 inches of rain in 4 days, but our land is high and drains well. We do have lots of rivers and streams around that are flooding, and we didn't go to the Bible class in the city or to the church in the country today, because a lot of the rivers were still rising as of yesterday. Some aren't even supposed to crest until Wednesday. The road the church is on was actually closed until sometime this morning, because one of the rivers had inundated the road.
There is a lot of flooding in our region. The lowlands about 10 miles away was like a sea. I know some of those homes got water in them. The river closest to us was some 10 feet above flood stage and still rising yesterday. There were lots of road closures and cows all huddled together because their pastures were largely under water. A larger town about 40 miles away had neighborhoods full of house islands, and some 2500 people had to be rescued because nobody expected the flooding to be that bad. It's worse than the most recent bad hurricane (Isaac), and possibly worse than the rather epic flood of 1983, which put 5 feet of water inside my best friend's house -- which was high enough up off the ground that you could walk under it.
I know we have at least one member who got even more rain than we did.
Oh -- and this picture may or may not have been taken in a town near us:
