Hanna Flooding

The basement flooded again. Ugh. Brian discovered it about 10 minutes before he had to leave for stake conference priesthood meetings at 1pm. He got a few things moved and said he'd be back to help between sessions. Then it ran late and lots of streets were closed because of flooding and downed power lines so he barely got home in time to head back to the stake center to translate the adult session. I got most everything moved except the heavy furniture over the hours he was gone. When he returned around 9:30pm I was sucking water with the steam cleaner and dumping it by the gallons. We probably got 40 gallons out of the carpet...you just stop counting after so many dumps. When you walked around the worst part, water would literally squirt out from under my feet. It was pretty depressing. When Brian got home, I turned over the steam cleaner work to him and headed upstairs to work on my talk for Stake Conference the next morning. Sometimes we receive blessings in the oddest of ways. When President Erickson called to ask me to speak in Stake Conference, I was actually online at that moment trying to book a hotel for the weekend to take the kids to the beach. We planned to be home for Sunday services, but not until late Saturday night. In the end, a crazy weekend wouldn't really allow me time to prepare, so we didn't go to the beach. That choice resulted in us being home and finding the flood early on Saturday rather than late Sunday night. It would have been a big loss if we hadn't found it when we did. You never know how God will choose to deliver his blessings. Sometimes they come in the oddest of packages, but we have to always keep our eyes open for them.