ARRG, Matey!

Three days ago it started raining. Bad raining! It started at lunch time. My friend Stacy and I got back from our treasure hunt (inactive Relief Society sisters) and decided to go to McDonald's for lunch, with all the kids and Curtis. When we arrived, it was just starting to rain. As we finished up our lunch it was down pouring. Complete with wind, dark heavy clouds, you couldn't see a quarter of a mile away. We decided to wait it out in the restaurant.

I look over at my kids, that don't seem to be concerned about the weather at all, and under the table I see Jesse's shorts. They were cut off jeans, but had almost foot long threads hanging off of them! He looked like he'd been washed in with the rain off of some shipwrecked island!!! His flip flops had been stepped on a few times, and they were just cheap dollar store ones, so as he gets up to dump his trash, one of the flip flops falls apart. His hair was all shaggy too, since I had not cut it in about three months. I looked at the other kids and none of them looked "this" bad. How did he slip past my radar?

It was time for us to go and the rain had finally let up some, but we all got pretty soaked by the time we got in the van.

"Mommy? Is it going to rain for 79 days straight?"
"No."
"Will we have to build a boat?"
"No, guys. It's not going to be that bad."
"Are we going to get a tornado?"
"No. It's just rain."
"Mommy? Will it rain for just 40 days?"
"NO! Guys, we'll be fine!"
"Well, will it rain for 40 nights then?"

I give up.

I almost had to eat those words though, because as we drove into town, all the streets were flooded, worse than I had ever seen before. Today, three days later, we were issued a flood statement that they expected the Platte river to overflow tonight. It was at 5.7 feet this morning. 6.0 feet is it's max capacity, and they expected it to be at 6.2 feet tonight.

This year has been crazy as far as weather. 6 blizzards for 6 weeks in a row this winter. 2 tornadoes that have hit close to town, one was IN town, this spring, and now it's flooding. We've had 4 hot days this year so far, and only two of them were above 90. And yet, the pool is open and I see hoards of people over there every day swimming in 73 degree weather.

Well, at least we have the costumes ready. We'll play the part of shipwrecked or pirate...just direct us which way you want.