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A Jon Post

Well, this week wasn’t really going to be a “blog” week so much as just a link to the newsletter we wrote for everyone. Instead, we had something happen on Saturday that we felt we should share with you all.
Saturday, very early in the morning, it started raining very hard. It kept it up and at about 6 Layne got out of bed and went down and saw that the water was rising pretty steadily. She woke me up and I did what I could to try to hold back the might flow of the torrent. I began bailing out our driveway but simply could not keep ahead of the waterfall that was coming from our roof. We moved what we could in the house, stuffed plastic bags under the doors and prayed the rain would stop.
It didn’t.
3 hours later our house had an inch of water in it.
I spent the next 4 hours bailing water into our road (surrounded by neighbors doing the same thing) trying to lower the water level in our yard so that the water would run back out of our house. After a while it finally started rolling out and Layne gave it a helpful shove with a squeegee we went out and bought. Because it looked like the rain could start back up at any moment I kept up the bilging process and Layne dried most of the house out.
Our wood floor has taken the most damage. As you can see in these pictures it’s in a lot of trouble. The water got under and into the wooden slats and they swelled up so that they don’t fit together anymore. We will probably have to redo the floors.
Such is life.
We honestly don’t deserve a dry, waterproof house so we’re not complaining.
The house is mostly dry and we’re fine. Anything that would have been critical in the water was upstairs and our roof sheds water very well.

Anyway, we did finish our newsletter. Please download it here and read it when you have the time. I know you may have just taken up your “read Jon and Layne’s stuff” time by reading this blog but please do read this newsletter when you get the chance. We’ve spoken of our time at the hospital and our plans (including a delay) for our “Casa Ahava” project in our home.

We are so blessed by you, your prayers, your support, your emails, your comments here even. We’re blessed to have a family who loves us across the world.