Flooding in Iowa

We have been out of town since June 6th and even then the water was rising. While we were in Texas we received a couple of emails about the flooding on Tuesday from Elizabeth's cousin and our pastor and from Wednesday on the Cedar Rapids and Des Moines Iowa made the front page news both in Texas and Arkansas. We called John's parents Tuesday and they got back to us on Wednesday telling us that our house was okay, but many roads were closed and covered in water and downtown Waterloo was closed including the Post Office. On our drive home yesterday we did see a lot of fields covered in water and a school in Des Moines in the middle of a lake. Today we saw a Red Cross station set up in Cedar Falls to help with disaster relief. Remember we just had an F5 tornado come through over Memorial Day weekend, so we are still cleaning up from that too and it seems like it's been raining ever since. Thanks for your calls and emails and prayers.