Home, Sweet Home

We were able to move back into our house Tuesday evening, which was a lot sooner than we expected. Boy were we excited! After two weeks of living out of a suitcase, it was sure nice to be back home. Alice was jumping up and down screaming with excitement and Myra was clapping her hands. Our garden was pretty much ruined and there were fish and other dead animals stinking up the garage (where the bodies were trapped once the water receded) but other than that, no damage. We were very thankful.

Here are some pictures we took of our road as the water was receding. You can see where people spray painted lines to show where the water had been. This is Sand Road looking north towards Iowa City. Our house is about a quarter of a mile up and to the right.

Here's another view of the road. Look at the blue highway sign to get an idea of how deep the water is where the road dips. You can see the water mark where the flooding peaked on the wooden post.


Still standing in the same spot but we zoomed in to try to get a shot of our house. Couldn't see the house but the white sign in the distance is in our front yard.

This part of the road became drivable on Saturday, though there is still about 6 inches of standing water in the dip. Someone attached their mailbox to the stop sign at the end of the road so they could keep getting their mail! Why didn't we think of that?


This is a side road that meets Sand Rd. If you go down this road and turn left, our house is about a quarter mile down the road. But really, it's hard to tell where the road actually is! This is the way that opened up for us so we could get to our house.