More Rain and Standing Water Plus Damage

After having another half inch of rain this morning, Bill came home for lunch and I suggested that we go up to Emmetsburg to Sum Hing for lunch - nothing else going on with all this rain we've been having.  So we did, where we had some good Moo Goo Gai Pan and Sweet & Sour Shrimp.  Then we went east to Lost Island Lake.  I had never seen it.  Always fun to drive around and watch people having summer fun at a lake at their campers or lake houses and dream about living somewhere with a view of the water and riding around on jet skis.  Today it didn't look like so much fun with all the mud everywhere.

Lost Island Lake, Ruthven, IA

Came across this cute little church.






Then we drove back south - and west of Pocahontas - just west of Diane's house.  She had told me this morning that there were straight line winds during the storm last night ( we got .8" with that storm) and quite a bit of damage to places that had been destroyed only two years ago by a tornado.  Sure enough, some of the same people who are rebuilding were hit again.  In this first picture is a new house under construction where their house and a greenhouse was destroyed before.  They say they'll have to start over on this house now.

Shed destroyed and pieces scattered.

The right end of this building is torn up.

These people go to the church I do.

Lots of debris scattered in fields again and some was still on the roads.  This next picture is not part of Lost Island Lake - it's in a field.  We saw lots of this today and worse in this area around Pocahontas than ours.

There are lots of lakes in the fields.

We had company from Indiana yesterday - Bob & Judy Huber.  Bob farmed for years and had hogs so he's been wanting to see our operation.  Mom has known them since her school years.  (I forgot to ask if I could take their picture)  We showed them around, had lunch and they were off for Omaha.  We checked the radar which showed purple where they were going so called them and they came back to wait until the storm passed.  We hope they didn't still drive through bad weather on their way southwest.

Glenn is driving a semi in the Colorado Springs area where there are wildfires.  This weather is crazy.