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Showing posts with label Iowa flooding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iowa flooding. Show all posts
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Monday, July 14, 2008
Water water everywhere......
After spending a week working with Vineyard Mercy Response in Iowa helping to gut flooded homes, my daughter, Amanda, said she would no longer hoard things..! Hard work physically and emotionally as the team worked together to haul everything out of homes.....at the same time observing the owners as they stood in a daze watching all they owned be dumped on the sidewalk to be scooped up by boys with their toys.
a bathroom
red writing shows the flood level
.... back in Emerald Bay, So California, our Zach enjoys water of a different kind...the beach, for the first time as a walking/running lad.
a bathroom
red writing shows the flood level
.... back in Emerald Bay, So California, our Zach enjoys water of a different kind...the beach, for the first time as a walking/running lad.
Monday, June 23, 2008
Auckland and Iowa
CEDAR RAPIDS IOWA
I am sitting at the Auckland International airport with a flat white and a scone. It is 6am and raining outside. Soon I will make a dash to the domestic terminal where I take an hours flight on a very small plane to Nelson where my parents, 2 siblings, 2 nephews and a great niece live. The other nieces and nephews have all temporarily? flown the coop.
My mind has not really been on this trip YET, as Amanda is flying to Iowa today to join with Vineyard Mercy Response in starting the cleanup process in Cedar Rapids. According to the news yesterday, the floodwaters had subsided and people allowed back into their homes and businesses. She’s going on her own and hopes ‘whoever’ picks her up from the airport. I think of the many Iowa folk, who have given hours and hours in the New Orleans cleanup. Now they will now be on the receiving end
I am sitting at the Auckland International airport with a flat white and a scone. It is 6am and raining outside. Soon I will make a dash to the domestic terminal where I take an hours flight on a very small plane to Nelson where my parents, 2 siblings, 2 nephews and a great niece live. The other nieces and nephews have all temporarily? flown the coop.
My mind has not really been on this trip YET, as Amanda is flying to Iowa today to join with Vineyard Mercy Response in starting the cleanup process in Cedar Rapids. According to the news yesterday, the floodwaters had subsided and people allowed back into their homes and businesses. She’s going on her own and hopes ‘whoever’ picks her up from the airport. I think of the many Iowa folk, who have given hours and hours in the New Orleans cleanup. Now they will now be on the receiving end
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