"Lord Willing and the Creek Don't Rise..."

We are fine! However, Columbus, as a world-class, architectural mecca of the midwest, is suffering.

• Columbus Regional Hospital has been closed - thousands of gallons of river water from Hawcreek flooded the hospital basement and first floor. Critical patients were lifelined to other hospitals in the region. The hospital is closed until further notice - as you can imagine they have already begun the clean-up process. I know it will be long and hard.
• The Historic Downtown area (residential) - you can drive down Washington Street and every historic home is without power - has nearly every single home furnishing item sitting on their front lawn/near the curb for "heavy trash" pick-up. So sad!
• Our home is safe - we live in the country high atop a hill - the water would have to get really high to reach us, however, we were water locked for nearly three days as our home is surrounded by two rivers and one very large creek. We had to wait for the water to receed in order to get out to the major highway.
• FEMA, The Red Cross and many other organizations have set up camp in Columbus to help flood victims - I hope and pray that it happens quickly so that people can return to "normal."

Visit: http://hneolive.therepublic.com/sites/flood/ss_aer1/index.html to view a slideshow from The Republic.