It has been quite a month!

The weather has put this house in quite the turmoil. We have had LOTS of rain, then the tornado in Parkersburg/New Hartford area, then Northeast Iowa flooded. The flood included the river that runs through Frederika, which thankfully didn't effect us other than Jason having to help get the merchandise out of the Bait Shop. We have a normal small stream running across our basement floor.


The next stop for water was the Cedar River that divides Waverly in half. Ann & Steve ended up June 10th with almost 6 foot of river water and sewer backup in their basement at home, the Iowa Realty office also had a basement full and one foot on the main level.


A couple of weeks later and the house is water free, just needs to be organized again, and they are starting on the office.

For more pictures of the flooding and clean up take a look at our photo gallery at the following link: More Flood Pictures

by Jeni

Oh, what a week!!!

June 9, 2008 the city of Waverly went underwater. My parents were right in the middle of it and spent a couple of days cut off from everyone except the neighbors that they could talk to from porch to porch with rushing water between them. Tonight is June 15, 2008 and we finally have the basement cleaned out of all the "stuff" just have to wash things off. After this many days of dealing with 6 foot of flood water in the basement mixed with sewer backup, my sister Emily has given us all something to laugh about.....
To see more pictures of the damage, go to www.scanlanphotos.com there are several galleries to choose from.

When I have more energy I will post more here also.

by Jeni

Time away from the television......

Monday, May 26th, while Jason was in Parkersburg helping, Jordan and I decided to take a break from watching all the news and visit Granma & Papa. We had a HighSchool Graduation Party to attend that direction anyway so decided to drop by and see what they were up to.

Of course, Jordan being as spoiled as he is by Granma & Papa, got Papa to get the "truck" out to see if he could drive it. Papa put the battery in and Jordan jumped in, looked up at me and said "me a big boy now mom". He was such a proud boy Monday!

Look at the concentration at driving down the SIDEWALK! Mom hopes he uses this much concentration when he gets his real license.

After a couple of trips around the parking lot, he had to check the battery, and other fluids I am assuming. Once he was satisfied that everything was alright under the hood, he jumped back in and around the parking lot we went again.

Proud Boy!


We did have to find the sun glasses after awhile.
"Me look cool mom?"

All he has talked about since Monday is that he got to drive the big truck. Sorry Megan, I'm not sure if you will be able to drive him around the parking lot anymore or if he will drive you.

by Jeni

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