My week started out in Colorado and South Dakota where, although I looked for corners, they were decidedly lacking.
The landscape was more about wide open spaces and meandering trails.
And this kind of unique traffic jam, definitely not like the ones most of us are accustomed to on the corners of our cities.
No horns honking here and no corners to be found for miles around.
When I returned home Hurricane Harvey was about to bear down on Houston where my son and daughter-in-law live with their three children. Thankfully they had the foresight to send the kids our way with their other grandma before the storm hit. Our son is a firefighter there so as a first responder, he stayed to work shifts, living at the engine house after being cut off from his neighborhood. His wife stayed also, alone in their new home, determined to try to keep the water from entering their front door.
Both worked tirelessly for days as the water obliterated all signs of familiar street corners.
Here in Shreveport we surrounded their children with love, lit candles for their parents and prayed often for all those affected by this unprecedented flood.
And this precious little girl knew exactly where to go when she was worried for her parents.
So yes, not many corners in my life this week, but lots of love, lots of prayer, and much thankfulness that the water didn’t breach their home, in addition to hope, that my son will make it back into his neighborhood today so he and his wife can turn their efforts to helping their immediate neighbors.
So many people lost everything and must now turn a new corner as they try to rebuild their lives.
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Wonderful post Julie, I love they way you have included the horrendous weather in Houston, it sounds like your son is one of the many heros in Texas at the moment!!
BTW great photos of South Dakota and Colorado! 🙂
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Thanks for reading Andy, and for your comments. We are so very proud of our son and his wife and of the many, many people who have pulled together for each other through this crisis!
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You’re most welcome Julie, and it is wonderful how the whole of the US seems to have responded to this natural disaster. It’s just such a shame that it takes such events to pull communities together, it’s exactly the same over here.
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Ah Jules, I didn’t know your son lived there. The cousin we are staying with here in Natchez (in his/our old family home) actually lives in Houston too. His neighborhood did go under so they fled here. They had to go back late yesterday to see what salvaging they could do after the four feet of water in their home for days. We are here for their small wedding next week, the reception planned in Houston for hundreds of friends and family. (It has taken them both a while to ever get married!)
Anyway, lovely and moving post. Please thank your son from these complete strangers…
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My heart breaks for them. Weddings take so much planning and are such an important day. I hope the wedding is a wonderful celebration despite the circumstances and they look back on this in the future as seeing their marriage forged in fire and thus, all that much stronger!
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