[Oe List ...] Iowa Weather

[Evelyn Philbrook]

Dear Margaret, 

Thank you for sending us the real situation.  How unsettling and scary, I know how you feel... when we face our typhoons here in Asia, we don't know what will happen next and we just pray it will be over soon and we all pull together to help each other in times of need. Food prices consistently stay higher in these situations and we figure out how to manage with what is less expensive and  are happy when the prices go down. Communication systems like cell phones and electricity are sketchy and I am surprised you still have internet!  Just keep talking and we can keep you in our thoughts, hearts and prayers.  Imagine, Iowa with so much water...

Respectfully,

      Evelyn Kurihara Philbrook, 
Certified Facilitator, 
ICA International Director     ICA Office 3fl, No.12, Lane 5, 
Tien Mou West Road,   Taipei, Taiwan ROC 111   O:(8862) 2871-3150 Cell: 0926682821  H:(8862) 2871-8743

--- On Sat, 6/14/08, Margaret Helen Aiseayew <aiseayew at netins.net> wrote:
From: Margaret Helen Aiseayew <aiseayew at netins.net>
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Iowa Weather
To: "Order Ecumenical Community" <oe at wedgeblade.net>
Date: Saturday, June 14, 2008, 1:08 PM



 
 

Here in the 
middle of the state every day is its own challenge.  Right now from north 
of Des Moines I could not get to my brother's home south of Des Moines if I 
wanted to try.  Two weeks ago I barely made it home from work on Monday 
morning and last Monday I could not get to the folks (and they are only ten 
miles away).  The flooding is so pervasive that it is impossible to know 
where you cannot go next.  I have dumped twelve inches from my rain gauge 
in the last ten days. Dad and Dorothy have had three more inches than I have 
had.  I am fortunate to have relocated since I moved out here.  At my 
first location there is more than five feet of water over the drive.  The 
back half of my current lawn looks like a field pond, but the crawl space under 
my house is dry.  The new drainage we put in at the Mackey church last 
year has kept the basement dry this season.  My home church--just two 
blocks from my house has had the basement flooded.

The 
tornados have been devastating, heartbreaking.  It is difficult to sit 

under the threat night after night, or day after day.  After something 
like 
the loss of the remarkable human beings at the boy scout camp, you wish 
you 
could trade places.  In Parkersburg the Methodist Church was being 
used as 
the volunteer meeting place until the heavy rains revealed that the 
winds 
had so compromised the roof that water poured through into the 
sanctuary. 
Last Sunday the roof of one of the Methodist churches actually 
fell 
in--luckily before the congregation gathered.  Volunteers have 
been drawn into their own crisis.  Today Interstate 80 was closed (the main 
east-west route across the state).  The Mississippi is closed for over two 
hundred miles. No barges are carrying grain or anything else to market (so yes, 
all prices go up).

A part of the struggle is that the randomness of all 
of this seems to 
reflect at least one dimension of the way life is and that 
is disturbing, 
causing one to wonder about the point of it all.  
Sorry.  I don't mean to be 
a downer, but we need a 
real break.  Margaret


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: 
  David & Lin 
  Zahrt 
  To: Colleague Dialogue 
  Cc: Order Ecumenical Community 
  Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 7:55 PM
  Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] [Dialogue] 
  Flood Victims
  
Out here on the 'West Coast' of Iowa we have only had, in the 
  past two weeks, a total of 7 1/4 inches of rain. We live on the west slope of 
  Iowa's Loess Hills and when we look west out our living room window we see 15 
  miles across the Missouri River Flood plain to the Missouri River and the 
  Nebraska hills. For the first mile and 1/2 approximately 1/2 of the cropland 
  has standing water. I suspect this land will have no crop this year; either 
  flooded out or unable to plant or re-plant. 
  

  7 miles south of us, along the hills the Little Sioux Scout Camp 
  experienced a tornado. You must have seen the publicity/news coverage on it. 
  The water in other parts of Iowa has been unprecedented. We have B&B 
  guests who knew people who lived through the tornado in Parkersburg, 
  IA, who subsequently purchased a house in Cedar Falls/Waterloo, IA, and have 
  since had the house flooded out.
  

  Don't know about Nancy Trask. Maybe we're losing some Covered Bridges in 
  Madison County.
  

  David
  

  
  
  On Jun 13, 2008, at 4:02 PM, George Holcombe wrote:
  Any news from our Iowa colleagues and others in the 
    flooded areas?
    

    
    
    
 
  
  

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