Flood: part I

This past weekend Ian came to visit Tyson and Tegan. While he was here he convinced Tyson, and about 5 other little boys, to jump like a frog, along with the toad that Ian had caught for them. The next morning, on our way to the art festival I got a call, asking for volunteers to sandbag Tyson's teacher's house. During the next three hours, Ian and I helped build a sandbag wall around Ms. White's house, while Tyson did a fabulous job babysitting Tegan inside the house. Just a few hours ago, the city of Iowa City issued a mandatory evacuation notice of the neighborhood, and street that Ms. White lives on, so obviously our work was for a purpose. As a side note, despite the high level of the water all over IC so far, they are predicting that the river will not crest until late next week, and that was without any more rain between now and then, and not including the half inch or so of rain we have gotten since the prediction was posted. So maybe, by the end of next week, we will be stranded in our house, not because there will be water on our street, but because all the roads towards downtown, or the UI campus, including I80 which they are closing tomorrow, will be underwater.