The floodwaters have crept up behind my house and the sandbagging crew worked three hours on that part of the line last night. Crazy. The reservoir is supposed to top the emergency spillway today (Tuesday) for the second time in 50 years, and then things will get worse. Crazier.

My younger son (turns 22 next week) says this is the start of the global warming era — that we foolish elders have bequeathed to his generation.

Today we’ll continue sandbagging and praying to the Buddha. We did see a beautiful double rainbow as we worked yesterday evening, but then it poured again in the middle of the night.

This is nothing, though, in comparison to real tragedies and disasters. As far as I know, no people have been seriously hurt or killed to date in these floods in Iowa.