What a day. We left Mitchell, South Dakota thinking we would stay in Nebraska City, Nebraska, BUT as we approached Souix City, Iowa we saw evidence that the flooding of the mighty Missouri River has not really receeded yet. We drove some of I-29 roads that had huge sandbags to keep the water off the roads. We had to take the same detour we would have had to taken in June around Omaha as the interstate is under water. How horrible for these people - most of them are farmers and have not been able to get their crops in let alone their homes being flooded. Now- God is so good! Wednesday evening before we arrived at Mitchell, SD they had a horrible storm with wind and hail. Today as we were driving the detour through corn country we saw miles and miles of blown down corn fields - I mean leveled. not only have these people had to deal with flooding, but what crops they were able to plant have all been leveled by the wind. When we pulled into the Kansas KOA we found out that the storm had gone through Kansas City last night and just received power today at noon. Today we drove almost 500 miles (no wind today) and we are both tired. We are hoping to get to the other side of St Louis tomorrow - depending on the wind. Will post tomorrow evening. Love ya'll.
What a day. We left Mitchell, South Dakota thinking we would stay in Nebraska City, Nebraska, BUT as we approached Souix City, Iowa we saw evidence that the flooding of the mighty Missouri River has not really receeded yet. We drove some of I-29 roads that had huge sandbags to keep the water off the roads. We had to take the same detour we would have had to taken in June around Omaha as the interstate is under water. How horrible for these people - most of them are farmers and have not been able to get their crops in let alone their homes being flooded. Now- God is so good! Wednesday evening before we arrived at Mitchell, SD they had a horrible storm with wind and hail. Today as we were driving the detour through corn country we saw miles and miles of blown down corn fields - I mean leveled. not only have these people had to deal with flooding, but what crops they were able to plant have all been leveled by the wind. When we pulled into the Kansas KOA we found out that the storm had gone through Kansas City last night and just received power today at noon. Today we drove almost 500 miles (no wind today) and we are both tired. We are hoping to get to the other side of St Louis tomorrow - depending on the wind. Will post tomorrow evening. Love ya'll.
After catching up with all the posts, I am quite jealous yet again over your travels. I will HAVE to make copies of some of your pictures! Mt. Rushmore is awesome! Looking forward to dialing your home phone number again!
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