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.