Flooding

Just to let everyone know, Jason, Zara and I are fine. Ames was flooded again this year with the majority of the creeks/rivers cresting over the flood of 1993 numbers. It took me almost a half hour to get to work (normally it takes about 7 minutes) and over two hours to get home. Of course part of that was backtracking and traffic. I was not at work for very long. The food service I work at is across the street from the Iowa State Center. They put the flood gates up yesterday, and the water was at the top of them this morning. I'm not sure if I'll have to work tomorrow, but we are also under a water boil warning. It's going to be pretty hard to wash dishes with no gas, electricity (both being turned off today on campus) and no water.

Jason did have to go to work, regardless of the fact that CyRide is also without power. Apparently they were able to get buses out to run some of the routes. They moved to Fredrickson Court (used to be Pammel Court), but the building they were using closed, so they moved to city hall since they could get to it at that point.

Our sump pump has been working overtime. We have a little water in our basement, but not on the finished side. I'm trying to boil enough water to get us through until tomorrow. The website said it could be up to 24 hours. Just in time for Jordan to visit! We convinced her to wait one more day to visit. I wouldn't even know where to begin to tell her how to get here. Most of the Ames exits are closed, and if they aren't, you can't get very far. Hence the two hour drive home. It's not supposed to rain tonight, so hopefully things will dry out some and the water will start going down.

We hope and pray everyone else is safe and dry! (Sorry, no pictures this time! Too tired to take them. I work early everyday and haven't been sleeping well with the torrential rain we've been having!)