The News: Thursday, April 18 Edition

Today it occurs to me that there is a bonus to currently dating someone who does woodworking and makes furniture…I’m going to ask him if he’s considered building an ark. Last week we got just over five inches of rain in four days. This week we’re working on an additional 3-4 inches in three days. While I absolutely love a good thunderstorm, and never get better sleep than when there is mass amounts of lightning and crashing thunder, the flooding is getting critical. Wednesday morning, before it started raining again, the river near my house was more than two feet over flood stage. They’re predicting it will crest some time late Friday at approximately four feet over flood stage. So while the thunderstorms are making me happy on a personal level, I really wish they would knock off for a while. People’s homes are underwater and that’s never a good thing.

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