The crest is nigh?

So they say. The news today indicates that the Iowa River has crested, or is within an inch or two. In spite of two weeks of being told the crest would not be here until Monday midnight at the earliest or Thursday at the latest, with all bets off if we received more rain. We received more rain three times, each having areas with 3-5 inches, and the area which received rain was fairly large, if the rain went through in only a few hours, it still seems very odd to me. Something does not add up. I will not dig, I do not care. I suppose I should just accept the good news and hope that it allows my trip to go off as hoped, with a little less stress, on time, rested, and without the fear of maybe coming home to a flooded apartment.

My cell phone was interesting, but it is not as powerful as I had hoped. It functions, but in a fairly limited manner. I can, as I have said, only guarantee that I can receive email and perhaps view blogs, news, and such. My ability to function within my blog, leave comments on other blogs, or do business online, is all rather dubious. Success has been very limited, with only one application being successful out of 3 or 4 things I attempted. Again, it may have been because everyone who lost access as I did was attempting to do the same thing I was and the demand was higher than the system is truly able to maintain. I am also not sure if the use of email or internet, while I travel, will cost more (or even if it is accessible at all, save maybe for certain in larger cities).

I plan on finishing all but the very last check of my packing today. Everything I had hoped to wash, save for a few last things (which I am currently wearing and which will not be going with). My house is a bit of a mess, but as things become packed to go or packed or stored otherwise, this will clear up. And, as things go into the Xterra, or on hangers and in drawers, life should become more comfortable. I am trying to use as few dishes as possible, snacking, reusing pans, paper plates, and fresh fruit seem to be the way. I await one final delivery. However, that package, at last update, was in Cedar Rapids. I will find out Monday, hopefully, whether the package is delayed and might make it by Wednesday or whether the package has been destroyed or lost in the flood. I do not know where the UPS package system exists in Cedar Rapids so I cannot be sure if it has been flooded.

In my rush to expedite my preparedness to leave, I have been missing my medicines. Yes, I know, but pushing my awake time and being completely out of my schedule have combined to throw me off that track. I am on them, again, as of this morning. As well, workouts have been delayed. I am hoping to work out tomorrow and Wednesday. I know, but I really had to push so that I could get out tomorrow if I really had to leave. If the river was still rising as it had been, I would have had no choice. I might have been flooded out by late tomorrow! I am still not quite off the adrenaline rush, but I do need to kick it down for the final stages of my planning, which will require intellectual agility rather than raw strength, energy, and personal push. As well, I am actually feeling the drain and near nausea caused by running on adrenaline for too long.

Thanks for all the prayers. Since I did not end up requiring some of them, though they may have played a role in my dry times, I will release them to all the others out there who do (and still may) need them. I certainly add my prayers for those who are out and suffering. Thankfully, so far, no deaths. And, it looks like only Iowa City has even needed to worry about looting (and put a curfew in place… thanks, I.C. and Coralville, for all those graduates of inner-city Chicago you snuck in without letting citizens even know what you were doing!). They obviously do not fit here, this is not the way Iowans comport themselves.