Well, I'm sure you've seen us on the news this week! The rain has been unlike anything we've ever experienced, and the flooding is just unbelievable. Our house has been fine and we've been safe and thankful. Anything we've experienced has merely been an inconvenience. Many friends and colleagues have been impacted in more severe ways with flooding, evacuations, and in some cases complete loss of their town or home. I never expected to feel such humility and amazement when viewing the site of a house submerged in water. And I also didn't expect to feel almost desperate when I almost wasn't able to get home from the airport on Friday because of closed roads. I've never been so happy to see traffic on the interstate once they finally opened it up! Our church is an evacuation site for the town of Lyons and some of the other mountain communities. The sun and blue skies finally emerged from the clouds today and the big helicopters were out all afternoon rescuing people. Clean up has also begun and Boulder has placed huge dumpsters all through town. I helped a friend of mine who's basement flooded this weekend drop off bags of ruined carpet, tile, and baseboards. The dumpsters are already filled to overflowing. Jacoby's school is closed through Wednesday. The half marathon race has been postponed. The boys and I toured some of the flooded areas around Longmont on Saturday and we also saw what a close-to-empty grocery store looked like. It's amazing the things you take for granted! We are keeping our eyes out for ways to help once recovery begins--right now, the sole mission is rescue.
The boys have kept busy indoors with short periods of outside time between the heavy rain showers. We're doing our own version of "home schooling" every day (yes, we're mean like that) just so Jacoby keeps up on math, reading, writing, and spelling. The boys are reading The Fellowship of the Ring with Justin and are really enjoying that story. Jacoby just finished reading us the third book in the Junie B. Jones series--really great books that make us laugh each evening.
Here are a few pics from our week:
Jacoby's school started the 100 Mile Club this year. Jacoby decided he wanted to participate, so they kicked it off during the Harvest Festival. Jacoby is the one in the middle in fluorescent green. We're also doing the Turkey Trot road race in November as a family (boys and I are doing the 2-mile and Justin is doing the 10K).
Getting time outside has been a challenge. They welcomed any opportunity to jump in puddles and hunt for worms!
We had to do our Lowes Build and Grow projects at home this weekend because the lumber department was flooded. The boys are getting better and better at these. Mommy still has to give the nails a good whack every once and a while. (:
Jacoby putting his wheels together
Our plants and trees sat in swimming pools most of the week...you can sort of see the river coming out of our gutter. We checked our basement a lot, the ceiling a lot, and walked the perimeter of the house a lot just to make sure the water was staying outside.
Playing games with Daddy
This is Boulder Creek still raging out of its banks and forming a lake at one of the parks in town.
The boys in their "boat"...they've had to get creative this week with their play and activities.
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