Osama Bin Laden
President Obama addressed the nation on Sunday night, May 8, to announce that U.S. special forces had found Osama Bin Laden and taken him out. An al Qaeda leader of terrorism directed against America, he was a mastermind behind the attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon nearly ten years ago. This coming September 11 will mark the tenth anniversary of those horrific events.
Flooding and other crazy stuff
All the snow and rain many parts of the country experienced this past winter is now beginning to translate into widespread flooding in many areas, especially up and down the Mississippi River and some of its tributaries. More than two million acres of farmland have flooded already, not to mention many homes flooded or wiped out, and the Mississippi River hasn't even crested yet.
Our daughter and her family in southern Illinois had to keep a sump pump going around the clock to keep ahead of basement flooding from all the rain they were getting.
And just weeks earlier some of the deadliest tornadoes in memory touched down across many states throughout the Southeast. Alabama was particularly hard hit. Our son-in-law, who just finished his coursework at pharmacy school in Atlanta, was among hundreds of Church members who traveled to Alabama to help in the massive clean-up effort. He got to wear one of the bright yellow Mormon Helping Hands t-shirts.
All this craziness probably dwarfs the flooding anticipated here in Utah when the record-breaking snows in our mountains actually starts melting and coming down. Unless, of course, you live where it actually floods.
And Texas is experiencing a major drought. It's either feast or famine.
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In the interest of historical accuracy, we didn't get a sump pump until 8am the next morning; we'd had to bail out the water by hand (well, by WetVac & buckets) non-stop all through the night. Just sayin'.
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