Rain Go Away

Oh the rain came and it helped the drought conditions we were having in Colorado! Then it turned unpredictably deadly! Loss of lives, property, lives turned upside down and inside out! A tragedy of biblical proportions! I am just stunned when I look at the photos I am seeing of the devastation. This google image is near Johnstown, Colorado. It is one of those little areas where people don't have a lot to begin with. Sad and heartbreaking.

The roads washed away and leaving behind an unbelievably horrible disaster!

The Platte River which runs thru Colorado and Western Nebraska was going to crest to ten feet this evening. It can cause major damage because it will affect I-80 a major highway. Please pray. The doctor I work for heads to Wray and Yuma tomorrow for clinic. They have been hard hit by the rain too. Pray for the rain to cease so this devastation will stop.

Boulder, Colorado. The images are mind boggling that rain could become so wicked and so deadly.

Sunset Street in Longmont, Colorado or what is left of it. A friend lived near there for many years.

Evergreen, Colorado. The hard blinding rain came and it did not want to leave!

I am a very positive person. Whenever it rains I get this old song "Don't Let The Rain Come Down" by the Serendipity Singers in my head!  So I am not making light of the disaster that happened here but I wanted to share a happy moment! I like the rain when I can safely go outdoors and walk and splash in it!

Colorado has been hard hit through the years from the floods in my hometown of Pueblo in 1921 and 1965 to this most recent 2013 flooding. Often these floods are widespread and take innocent lives with the major damage it does. My sisters home is one of the houses that survived the flood of 1921. My folks home sat at the top of a hill with a view of Pikes Peak from our front window and we were on vacation in 1965.  As much as I love the rain this was so different. The wild behavior of this rain which caused major flooding and left people homeless was tragic. I read about a woman who is believed to be dead in Loveland, Colorado. Her three children found a family photograph floating ten miles away from their home. Someone added a photo to their Face Book page stating they found wedding photos drifting down the street and wished to return them to their rightful owner in Longmont, Colorado.. Lots of stories will emerge from this terrible tragedy and many stories will put a smile on your face, I hope you will visit Ms. Jenny and all the wonderful "R" posts today. I hope you will pray for my home state and I pray that people will be reunited with loved ones and this tragedy just continues to make all of us kinder, stronger and more aware of the world around us.

"For you would forget your trouble, As waters that have passed by, you would remember it." Job 11:16 NAS Bible

A couple notes: If you go to my Face Book Page Anne Kocman Robinson you can click on the Ford delaership there who is donating $10 to the flood victims for each click! Also if you go to Holly Webb's Face Book Page, she is my niece, she is working with a program called Operation Backpack and collecting backpacks for kids from Lyons, Co. who will be starting school in Longmont next week due to the devastation in their own home town. Please help out and remember to pray.