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Oh such interesting times we live in! Isn't one of those old time curses 'may you live in interesting times'? The ground around here is so saturated with all of the rain we had last Spring, Summer and Fall and that is true for several states north of us. And its been snowing up north all Winter. Lately we have all been getting rain that can't soak into the ground because its so saturated already so guess what? Yes, we are at flood stage and it's March.

I point out that it is March because the runoff from snow melt hasn't even started. When it starts flooding this early it is a really bad sign of whats to come. But at least when the Tornado came on Sunday it mostly stayed out on the river. I have to say it slung an enormous quantity of water on all of us though!

The water is rising several feet a day now. It's supposed to crest on Saturday so that's a good thing. My friend Carl has a renovated church near the water. He got flooded last June and just got everything refurbished so he is very worried. Four feet higher and he will take water again. When it was a church they got water about every ten years or so. It would be really hard to raise the church so they just sold it.

I took this picture on a day that the sky was looking particularly wicked, it just so happened that Carls church was in the photo. Or in other words, I was too lazy to walk down to the river to take the picture. In my own defense I was worried that it would start raining on me and I was already a good 300 feet from my house. Anyway, you can see the street in front of the church in this picture. Right now that road is underwater. Poor Carl. He should have bought my house instead.