Where I live in East Central Kansas we’re in a pattern of rainy weather that’s resulted in river flooding during the past few weeks. We’ve also had two events so far, in the last 10 days, where rain has fallen at such a tremendous rate that is resulted in massive flash flooding. Chicken Creek did not go unaffected. Our little creek swells to 3 or 4 times its size then over the next few hours returns (flash flooding). As the nearby reservoirs and rivers take on these massive amounts of water, the river flooding expands swallowing up the highway that comes in and out of Leroy, farms and homes. We are inconvenienced to take long detours where we look at fields, once holding crops, now looking like vast lakes.

Hubby and I are doing extraordinarily well Chicken Creek has returned to its banks we’ve lost no property other than the inches of muddy banks of our creek that have washed downstream. We are safe, the animals are safe, the chicken pen is a lot muddy and quite stinky. I’m tired of wading through puddles, but those are only minor inconveniences. We have fared much better than a lot of other of our countians. There’s a lot more I could write about but really not much more I could say. Hopefully things will dry out soon and life will start moving in more typical patterns. ☀️