A Rainy Week

I think it's rained here the entire week. The retention pond across the street from our house has been dry all summer and now it's threatening to spill over into the street. The St. Joe River is higher than I've ever seen it - looking very muddy and "angry". We lost a tree at the corner of our house in the wind storm on Thursday night. Kind of sad having to cut it down yesterday, since I remember planting it as just a "little thing" 20 years ago.

Colleen, Jimmy and Ben are on their way to St. Louis for a few days to visit with family. She called a little while ago to tell me that it has rained so much near Chicago, that the eastbound lanes of I. 80/94 were flooded and the traffic was backed up for an estimated seven miles. Luckily, they were in the westbound lanes. She said that they had hoses and pumps trying desperately to clear away the water and that there was only one exit ramp trying to handle all the traffic.