CO Flood 2013

It's been plastered all over the news for five days now, the effects of a perfect storm that settled over Colorado and pounded it, day after day , with rain, " Rain of biblical proportions"  as the National Weather Service said in it's alert.  And rain it did. The rain covered the majority of a state that was in the middle of a severe drought. The clouds opened up and spilled out twice the amount of rain our dry, desert state gets in the better part of two average years.

Day one of the flood. This is three miles from our house.

Nature showed us just what it can do with water. Devestation followed. Roads were split in two, a new river running between it, leaving no entrance -or exit-- for many cities in our beloved state. With no way in , or out, of a land only begining to heal from the ravaging effects of fire, the constant threat of land slides stranded entire cities with no food, no water and no way to connect with those on the outside.

A friend sent me this picture from about 20 minutes away.

In Fort Lupton, 20 minutes east of Boulder, one of the hardest hit areas, we'd grown accustomed to seeing our section of the South Platte river at a mere trickle of what it once was. Now, the water rushed passed it's embankments and onto the highway. It covered fields of nearly grown, ready to harvest crops. It flooded basements, houses, yards , gardens of anything with in it's reach. Five days and 11 inches of rain later, the clouds cleared and the sunshine poured onto the rain soaked land. Just as quickly as the floods poured, they receded leaving behind the most lush green Colorado country side I ever remember seeing.  Though the rains have stopped, the flood waters continue to rush towards north eastern Colorado. Please pray for the families left in the path of this disaster and those who remain in danger. The effects of this storm are long lasting and wide spread

, projected to take six months to a year to repair.

I'm not exactly sure how it happened, but Mack ended up
on a pantsless worm hunt amidst the rain. You're only five once!

Mason watching his sister's worm search from the warm house

A slight silver lining- The rain brought out the slugs!

He's a cute lil fella. But he does look like a booger.