New Day

It is Saturday and we had a productive day I think. Steve took care of the mowing and I did the weed-eating (that sounds weird) and then we went to a birthday party for our neice. Then we took care of some stuff and tested our fish pond to see why our fish have the creeping crud or whatever. Basically the levels of stuffs in the water are a bit off so we have to figure out how to fix that. The air here smells like something is on fire...that concerns me a bit. Steve has a job interview on Tuesday so we are hoping that will go well. Yes, he has a job now but the place he is interviewing at is a growing business not a dying one like where he is now. I am going to go to church tomorrow and then to get a pedicure and my eyebrows waxed. My training in St. Louis was pretty good. It was a good refresher on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and was about a million times better than my grad school class was on the subject. Hopefully I will be able to use it to help others. The flood waters are receeding here and the bridge is staying open 24 hours a day so Steve is able to stay at home again. I missed him a lot while he had to stay in Illinois. I should get off of here and go spend time with him actually. So, I think I will.

Drowning in stress

The water just keeps coming. My husband left today with a packed bag in case he gets stranded in Illinois for a few days. The IDOT thinks they can keep up with the rising water and keep the road opened to Illinois from Iowa across the bridge. Of course people are being idiots and are spending too much time gawking instead of driving and there have been reports of people getting rear-ended. It just blows my mind how people can be so stupid sometimes. I am supposed to go to St. Louis on Thursday night but really have no idea if that is going to happen or not. I might not even be able to leave the state by then. I don't even want to be that far away from home at this time. I wish Steve had a job in Iowa so we wouldn't even have to worry about it. He had to leave today at 11:30am to get to his job at 2pm when it is only actually about twenty minutes away. Talk about a waste of gas. In the grand scheme of things, we don't have it that bad though. I personally know of a few people that have lost their homes to the floods and many many more have also. I think we can stand a little inconvienence when other people are losing so much. My main point of annoyance is people speculating on things and then taking it for truth. For example, the Keokuk-Hamilton bridge is STILL open and only closed briefly last night so that they could keep building it up faster. Every other second I keep hearing that it will be closing. It's getting terribly annoying and making the stress of the situation even worse because it's hard to distinguish the truth from the crap. I am thinking about going down there tonight and parking at the mall and walking out on the bridge walkway and trying to get some pictures of the flooding so people can understand it. I won't be in the way since I will be on the walkway and as long as the bridge doesn't collapse, it should be okay. I might also trying going out on the old bridge if they still have that open, which I think they do. I need picture evidence to show my kids someday.

The flood waters are coming.

The flood waters are working their way into our area. I am glad to be living on a bluff and to not have to worry if my house will be flooded. If my house floods the whole country is in a bit of trouble! However, if they close the bridge between Iowa and Illinois, it could prevent my husband from getting to his job. So I guess we will just have to see how it works out. I am supposed to be going to St. Louis for a training next Friday but I don't know if I will be able to get into Missiouri or not. Again, we will just have to see what happens. Hopefully, they learned something from the Great Flood of 1993 (which I remember clearly) and they are proactive about the flooding instead of reactive. We had to take the trolley across the dam in order to see my dad. It was cool when I was a kid but not something I want to do again. I have strongly considered building an ark but the world was promised not to have that happen again the last time. Anyways, you think these college educated engineers would develop something a little stronger than sandbags to hold back flood waters. But alas, we will always being at the mercy of mother nature - who we have beat to death and is now exacting her retribution.