Last time I wrote I was talking about the flood. Well, our basement was NOTHING compared to what so many people have endured in our community this past week. Pleae keep our community in your prayers. I haven’t heard official numbers, but hundredes of people have lost their houses, and even more have damage. No one has seen it flood this bad or this quickly in this area. I think everything finally crested Thurs / Friday and is gonig down now. We finally made it into town yesterday (many roads were closed – it was the long about way, but we could finally get through) and it was just so sad to see so many peoples houses with boats in their front yards and water everywhere. Apparently this area used to be swamp land before the farmers came in and put in drainage tile and such. You think everything is flat out here, but we actually are on high ground compared to many others. I head stories of people waking up in the middle of the night with their windows breaking and water pouring in. There are about 90-100 people staying at one of the local churches, and many others staying at friends and family. The McDonald’s and KFC had water almost up to the roof. You drive by local park and see bent slides etc. from the water currents. It is incredible and so sad. The food bank is running out of food, many places have called and asked for blankets, hats and gloves. We are very grateful to not have been drastically affected personally, but there are many in our community in need.

Other than that, Matt made it home safely from his trip to Minnesota. He leaves next week for Wisconsin. We have been shuttling the boys to basketball practice, and my Menu Planning Central website had a huge disaster. We had a hacker put a weird banner on the site, so our webhost went in to take it down. The hacker thankfully didn’t get any info. such as members names or anything like that. However, in the process of repair our webhost accidentally erased everything from our site since Sept. We lost over 500 recipes we had paid people to enter, all of our members and a lot of other info. So we are basically starting from ground zero again on that site – very sad. It’s a mess, but not much we can do about it, but face the fact and rebuild.

Well, I just wanted to give a brief update. I need to go pick up the boys from school.
C-