When I left Guatemala it was the rainy season, but I had not seen much of it. Now I know why. All the water has been diverted to the middle of the USA. Friends with whom I sailed in the fall Semester at Sea voyage visited me last night and told me they realized what looked like a lake on their drive from Minneapolis was really a field. Yep, it is wet out there. I spent the morning working on a farm on the west side of Madison and my shoes were mighty heavy from all the mud stuck to them after plodding through the fields for a short time.
My mom left me a voicemail telling me things had gotten so bad in Cedar Falls (town in Iowa where my parents live) that they made the national news. And Eva, a fellow farm worker, told me Gays Mills, WI was completed flooded and may never recover. Both of these stories were covered in the article I have attached below. So, far my parents house is still ok, but the water hasn't stopped rising.
In my own front yard my street is a bit of a river. It is undergoing construction and this combined with the rainfall has created something of a pending disaster. I am increasingly concerned about driving my car in and out wondering when I am going to become completely stuck in the middle somewhere.
Thankfully it has been a dry day in Madison thus far. I hear it is raining north of us.
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