What a Weekend

Watching the news the last few days has been more than depressing. Around 4:45pm on Sunday May 24th a storm came through NE Iowa and hit several communities. The community that seems to have been hit the hardest is Parkersburg. While this is about 1 hour away from us and all we got during the storm was LOTS of rain and a little bit of small hail, Parkersburg has been basically destroyed.

Jason, or resident Fire Fighter/EMS, traveled with others from Frederika to help with searching for victims and cleaning things up. Monday he was even able to get some pictures, instead of me posting them here check out our photo website.

by Jeni

FINALLY a non-rain weekend!

WOW, a Saturday that it isn't raining. So, what does the Scanlan family do? We take the chance to get outside and get things done.

Jason spent most of the day in the shop working on his truck while Jordan, or now known as "shadow", watched VERY carefully. By the end of the day, the truck was fixed.........

and almost all of Jordan's cars had been on the jack at least once.

Jeni got the lawn mowed, well almost. Now the mower is on the jack waiting to be fixed!
We will all sleep VERY well tonight.

by Jeni

After the flash flooding last week, Jordan & I took a drive around Frederika and found a few "flood funnies". These flamingos seem to be on their own island.......

....hoping that "dry" land will be around for awhile.....

How about a "water side" picnic.

by Jeni

Photo says it all.....

Jason took this picture yesterday, 4-25-08, at Alcock Park in Fredrika.

by Jeni

Iowa Weather!

WOW!

The weather around here lately has just been ........... strange.

I can hardly believe that it is the 25th of April and our furnace is on tonight. Last night we were kept awake by lighting and thunder, ALL NIGHT. We even lost electricity for a few hours. The drive to Tripoli to take Jordan to daycare and me to get to work in Waverly was very interesting. The ditches were full of water and you could see where the water was over the road at some time during the storm. During the drive to Tripoli I noticed something really strange in the ditch, upon closer observation this is what I noticed.......

This is a culvert that once went under a field drive along side the road. Notice in the second picture how the grass is still on the top of the culvert...

There were even places that I couldn't drive because the road was still covered in water. Somebody, in wonderful wisdom, placed a sign on the edge of the water over the road to warn drivers as to what was ahead...... the sign stated very clearly

"WATER OVER ROAD"

Gee, I didn't know that was what that was. I was going to get a picture, but there were about 3 cars behind me that were also trying to turn around to get to work.

On a nicer note, I took this sunrise photo about a month ago and would like to share it also.

This was taken just south of our house, once again on the way to Tripoli one morning. It was WONDERFUL!

Enjoy the Iowa weather!

by Jeni