I'm posting...
because I just don't know what else to do with myself. My stomach has been in knots all day and I am a nervous wreck.

Why, you ask?

I don't want to go into details, I don't think I have it in me, but I will tell you this: my hometown is within an eyelash of being practically destroyed by a flood. The Ohio River is expected to crest over 10 feet above flood level. That will take out most of downtown. Considering almost every creek and stream has overflowed its banks already and the sewers are full, this is a nightmare.

My parents house is flooded, and their patio is completely destroyed, as are most of the contents of their basement. I remember helping my dad lay the bricks on the patio when I was a young teen.

The back wall to my house is caving in, and the bathroom is flooded.

But we're lucky. I have three friends who have houses completely under water and more friends than I care to count whose houses will be as well if the river rises as high as it's expected.

This flood could potentially wipe out my WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD and a HUGE chunk of my hometown...which is, by the way, Wheeling, West Virginia, population 30,000.

So, here I sit, 2 1/2 hours away, safe from the chaos and destruction. But I would give anything to be there right now...doing SOMETHING! But I can't...so I will do what I can: If you are the praying kind, the believer in a higher power kind, the light a candle kind...PLEASE DO IT...cuz my hometown is going to need all the divine intervention it can get.


- posted by Kim @ 10:45 PM