We went to bed with thunderstorms last night...and got up to thunderstorms this morning. For all I know, it rained all night--and then, it REALLY started to rain! I sat on the patio and watched water collect in places it has never collected before...and in short order, flooding was all there was on the news. Not just a little--a LOT. Hendricks County, fortunately, was not on the emergency list, but the counties just to the west and south were socked. Pictures of a failed dyke on Princes Lake in Johnson County reminded me of New Orleans after Katrina. They were asking people with boats to come to the rescue. Even the Coast Guard sent helicopters to evacuate land-locked Indiana residents. Some places received 10 inches of rain. Not good, considering the soil was already saturated from previous storms of the past two weeks. In any case, we are high and dry, but many are not.
We had plans to take the children to the zoo today. Uh....no. And time to go to the Children's Museum was taken up with torrential rains. So, Meg and the kids decided it was time to move Grandma into her new bedroom. That, my friends, is not an easy job! The children launched into vacuuming and picking up a path between the bedroom and what used to be the garage. They actually were a big help. Then Meg and I moved my dresser...and I decided, after looking at things, that I should take over the full-sized bed and let the waterbed go. We went to Meg's storage unit to get a twin bed out for her, only to discover that we needed a bed frame for it. That prompted a shopping trip on the way home. We are home now. Sometime between now and midnight, we hope to have beds set up for everyone, even if only temporary. I will like my new digs when the dust finally settles. We just aren't there yet!
Awaiting the delivery of supper right now (pizza), then will be hitting up the second wave of moving work--setting up beds. Once this project is finally done, the ol' place should look pretty good. In the meantime, we are still in turmoil. And the weather certainly hasn't helped!
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