Count Your Many Blessings

A few days ago here in Ridgecrest we had a very big rainstorm. It was the biggest I have seen in Ridgecrest so far. I was so excited for the rain that Jim, Violatte, and I all went and played in it. It was really pouring, though, so we got soaked really quickly. I was loving it.

Then, yesterday I was looking at the newspaper and saw the pictures of the flash flooding that happened. I had heard there was some flash flooding, but I didn't realize how horrible the flooding was until I saw the pictures. In many places the water was up to some peoples' knees. They had to pry open doors of some places to get the people out because the water was so high they couldn't open the doors.

Many, many cars were stalled along the roads because the water was so high it stalled all the engines. Both Jim and I were home at the time, so we didn't have to worry about problems with our cars. The thing that surprised me the most is that one of the picture in the newspaper that showed people stalled and having really bad trouble with the water on the roads was just three blocks from our house.

As I've seen all that and realized what has happened, I have realized that I have so many blessings to be grateful for. Our house was not affected much by the water. We had a little water gather in our garage. It was a very little puddle. Then, in our backyard, a big puddle gathered, but it was back by our back corner fence. It didn't get near the house.

We are so blessed because so many people had big flooding problems in their homes. Some were up all night pumping or vacuuming the water out of their homes. Many businesses also had a whole lot of water damage. We are so blessed. We have had no problems. I really have had many blessings to count.