Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
The Lord dwelleth in the flood, yea, the Lord shall sit as king forever. — Psalm 28 (LXX)
Well, it wasn’t on a par with the great Atlanta flood of several weeks ago, but I left the house this morning to discover that places that I haven’t seen flooded in years and years were, in fact, under water. This included a number of places near the house, including much of the field shown in our header picture, and the pasture where we take the dogs to run. Across the road from the church was more flooding, with annoyed cattle either perched on islands of dry land or, more often, slogging through the water to their barn on higher ground. Fortunately, the corn fields were already harvested. I think Pani took some pictures of all of this, and I’ll try to post them later this evening.
Meanwhile, a little over the Tennessee line in Polk County, where we have at least one member, things were even more spectacular down in the Ocoee Gorge. Just as workers were close to cleaning up one rockslide, a second one engulfed the road. This video is pretty impressive.