Waiting for the ark!

We survived the Great Flood of 2010! These past few days have been both crazy and scary. I am still glued to the tv watching the new coverage of the flooding in our area. For those of you "outsiders" of Hendersonville/Nashville, we received 14 inches of rain in two days over the weekend. This caused flooding of epic proportions. Very. Scary. Stuff. Lives have been lost, as well as MANY homes and livestock. So sad for so many people. The small creek across the street from us grew from 5 feet in width to about the size of a football field. Crazy! The rivers still haven't crested and authorities are "on guard" in downtown Nashville in case the levies break. Gulp! Prayers are needed for our area!
All was well during the storm until our electricity went out. And stayed out. For 12 hours. SO NOT COOL WITH THREE KIDS. Hannah and Aidan went from room to room checking to see if ANY of the lights would work. And they kept bringing us different movies asking, "Will THIS one work?". It took some explainin' for them to get exactly what was going on. Then the windows started leaking (ultimately ruining the hardwood in our guest bathroom). After a while we were getting sticky with no air in the house, tensions were running high, and I decided it was time for us to leave the house (since the rain had slowed down). We were going to head to Jason's folks house down the street because they had power (air and tv!). I packed up all the lunchmeat, cheese, yogurt, etc. that we could eat for dinner since it was going to go bad in a couple of more hours. We bundled up all three kids and made a mad dash for the van. Then Hannah fell down the deck stairs. She fell reallllly hard. I scooped her up, applied kisses, and continued to the van. Jason turns around and says, "God's got a really good sense of humor today". Our front tire was flat as a pancake. UGH! So not only now was it pouring down on us, we were hungry and stir crazy in a humid, dark house - but we WERE STUCK HERE! Jason changed the flat only to discover that the spare was also low on air. After a huge loop in our plans, we finally were able to head to the in-laws for a few hours. Power was restored while we were gone, and cable was restored this morning. And except for the fact that a lot of local roads are closed, life is pretty much back to normal for the Humphrey Family. We are still praying for those that are stranded from their homes.
So that is the story of how the Humphrey Gang survived the history-making flood of 2010!

On a totally different note: The response to my previous post - the one with the starving African girl - has brought a TON of comments and discussion! People were posting the blog as their status on Facebook, and I have even had total strangers emailing about it. One of my readers was reading the blog at work and a co-worker saw the picture over her shoulder. The amazing thing is that it prompted that co-worker to start sponsoring a child in need - how incredible is that!?!?! Please understand I am not taking any credit here - I just think it is totally awesome that God will use a photo to stir hearts and call people to act on behalf of his children.

Hope you all have a great week!
Amanda