We had awful weather yesterday, but this time we didn’t bother with outfitting the bathroom for tornadoes. We were glued to the tv. These 2 storms were horrible. And for some reason, the first one sat on top of our city for a very, very long time. I don’t think we know for sure how much rain we actually got–we have heard varying numbers between 6 and 11 inches. THAT is a lottawatta! There is much damage to the roads around here due to the flooding.

As bad as it was, it was not as bad as the flooding we saw when we lived in Little Rock many years ago. A hurricane (I forget which one) came straight up from Louisiana, dumping 10 inches of rain on us in one hour. Yes, I said 10 inches in one hour. I have never seen anything like it. Brand new cars at a local dealership were just floating away. I don’t know if they ever found them all. It was raining so hard, water was pouring into my home through the light fixtures! Talk about unnerving….

Our home was on an incline on a curve. All the homes around us flooded up to their roof lines. DH managed to find enough passable routes to get home from work, and we watched as the water kept rising, rising, rising in our front yard. DH “planted” a very tall stick as a measuring tool which was quickly submerged. The water line finally stopped, exactly even with the threshold to our front door. Another whisker’s worth and it would have been through the door. Whew!

This story is a whole lot more dramatic, but I’m tired, so you get the Readers’ Digest version. Yesterday with 6-10 inches of rain, 3 tornadoes, and 70-mph winds, we are just very thankful that all our family are safe and damage-free (except for my flowering plants). All our 30-foot oak trees held up under the hurricane-force winds that were constantly shifting directions. It was a wild day that started with a tornado about 7 miles from my office in the afternoon and ended with a tornado about 7 miles from my house. I feel very blessed.

Two weeks in a row–that’s enough of that!