[Oe List ...] Iowa Weather

Sat Jun 14 08:50:25 EDT 2008

Dear Friends,
Thank you so much for keeping us all apprised of The Way Life Is.   
Dick and I hold you all in our hearts and prayers, Ellen
On Jun 14, 2008, at 5:21 AM, Evelyn Philbrook wrote:

> 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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