We can only hope. I was kidding when I said I was thinking of building an Ark....but as we tried to get home yesterday it sure would have helped. We started out of town on Hwy 52 North, so happy I didn't have to take Hwy 14 West to Owatonna and 35 North. Little did I know I couldn't go that way either. As we got to the Oronoco exit.....barely out of Rochester, we had to exit and the detour took us back to Rochester on 52 South....we thought we read the detour sign wrong, so we actually drove back north on 52 only to reread the signs and thought we would be really smart and take one of the side roads that ran paralel to the highway to the next entrance to 52, well that didn't work either as it was closed, so we went west and turned north on the next county road, but ended up having to turn around about a mile down. So we pulled out the GPS and started working our way west and north having to turn around and go back and head west several times. I was beginning to think we wouldn't get home and I didn't think we'd even beable to get back to Rochester. We finally got to Hwy 60 and knew that would take us into Faribault...and thought we were home free....but Faribault had flooding too! and had roads closed etc.....but we did make it through town and were able to take 35W all the way into the city. Now we were feeling really good till we got to Hwy 252 which has construction going on.....and we crawled through that. So 4 hours after we left Rochester we finally got to Coon Rapids.....and coasted on fumes into the Holiday Gas station just a mile from home. After filling the tank, we did make it home. I immediately took a nap!!! I was exhausted!!!
After the nap I felt great and turned on the news to watch the news and all the pictures of the flooding in Oronoco, Pine Island, Owattona etc. All the places we had just tried to drive through. We had witnessed in person all the devistation. The camera's were not lying....it is really bad. So say some prayers the sun will shine for awhile, and dry out those fields so that the farmers can harvest those bumper crops they had.
As for me, I am fine. God is carrying me through and I'm over half way done with this part of the treatment. Next week staying at Hope Lodge will make it a breeze, cause it is walking distance from the clinic and all but about 500 feet are inside subways.....plus they have a shuttle that will pick us up right outside the door and drop us at the door of Mayo. If Judy and I start out early enough....we'll walk.....but if the day gets long and we are tired, we can take the shuttle back.
Today I get to play with Matthew as the girls go watch Katie run in the Griack Cross Country meet at the U of M.....and tomorrow I will drive to the cabin, and then to Annie's to celebrate birthdays of Collie, Allie and Matthew. Happy Day!! Love and prayers, m
I just called AAA guess what? The following roads are closed 35,14,52,50,65,27,17, and 71. LOL I was advise to take 35 to 30 (exit 26)to airport and then come N to Rochester
ReplyDeleteOMG hopefully Monday some of them will reopen.
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