You’ve got to take the bitter with the sweet

by chuckofish

The summer is seemingly drawing to a close. The kids are all heading back to school. Only two weekends remain between now and Labor Day! Sigh. I will note, unlike a lot of flyover summers, since we have had so much rain, everyone’s flowers are still blooming abundantly. The grass is still green!

The Rose of Sharon has been particularly vigorous.

Of course, that also means that there has been a lot of flooding. It has always been thus. A lot of rain = flooding.

We are reminded that back in 1915 a flash flood of the River Des Peres inundated much of St. Louis. Between 9 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. more than 40 people were rescued by boat from homes in the Manchester-Hampton area. At Sublette Avenue, 40 people were taken from marooned streetcars in skiffs, and a dozen more were evacuated from a Gravois Avenue waiting room. But waters fell almost as fast as they had risen, and within two days traffic was back to normal.

Well, although the kids are heading back to class, summer weather will not end. It will stay warm well into October and that’s okay, right? “As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.” (Genesis 8:22)

Have a good weekend! Try to get outside and enjoy the sunshine.

(Information about the 1915 flash flooding is taken from St. Louis Day By Day by Frances Hurd Stadler.)