Got Water?

Well, I don’t know where to begin….Chaia and I left for Girls Camp Monday evening. We camp straight south of Indianapolis on Highway 37 in a town called Bedford next too the White river. It rained all night and at times it was pouring. We got up finished getting camp ready for the 80 girls coming. It rained off and on all morning. When girls arrived the storms were getting bad and the tornado sirens went off so into the lodge basement we went. We hung out there for 30-45 minutes then they let us out to go back to our cabins. The rain continued off and on but we went about or schedule. I and another leader headed into town to develop pictures we had taken of the girls for a craft later in the week. We headed into Wal-Mart and printed our photos on the way back out to camp is started raining which turned to pouring. The area we camp in is very hilly. As we are driving Mitch’s truck up and down these back roads- the water is rushing all over them I was going about 25 miles per hour just trying to see and stay on the road. We were almost back to camp when we made a turn looked ahead and a tree was down over the road no way around it. Fear of getting lost we headed back to town to go the only other route I knew off. As we are approaching camp again we came up over a hill and looked down there was another tree down in the road this time there was enough room to go in the ditch and get around it. Wednesday we dried out as well as Thursday but the 95 degree heat was what we had to live with both days. Thursday night it rained where we were but in Indianapolis it had been seriously raining. By Saturday morning, we had numerous calls that Indianapolis was having some flooding. The church building down the street from us was turned into a rescue center with fire trucks with boats attached to them. The street we live on as well as MANY others leading to it were closed including the highways we would use to get home Highway 37 & Interstate 65. The counties we needed to cross to reach home were declared state of emergencies and we were not allowed in them. So those that lived in other counties not affected could leave but 30 of us were instructed to stay at camp until further notice. The weather in Bedford was clear but they were expecting the rain waters from the White River which runs from Indianapolis straight down the state to reach us eventually. We finally heard word of a route we could take to get home but that it would be long. We basically had to drive way east then go north and back west over to Indianapolis. Today we heard that highway 50 that we had taken to leave Bedford had been closed the water from Indianapolis had reached there. We are expecting more rain in the next couple of days but at least we are all here together. We basically had to drive almost to Ohio to get back to Indianapolis. At one point we were closer to Cincinnati than Indy. In all of this it was nice to know that the pond behind our house did its job and kept the rain waters away- the flooding didn’t reach our property line—this time. Hopefully we will continue to be dry.



In addition to Mitch working from home and keeping Kaylie and Aneka busy while Chaia and I were away. A friend of mine was watching the kids to give Mitch a break- they played outside a little too long and now have sunburns with blisters and are just miserable. So needless to say we have had quite the week and are ready for things to slow down. This week we will be trying to get back to a normal route and hopefully stay dry. I’m really dreading going into work tomorrow…..I’m sure it will NOT be a slow day!!!