We've made it to Missouri. Last night was storming like crazy! We could see the clouds rolling in all afternoon, and by 9pm it began. Throughout the night it poured on us, lighting and thunder left us a bit groggy in the morning. When we got up, the weather wasn't bad so we decided to get on the river. Barb (who we stayed with this weekend) called us and told us that there were tornado and flash flood warning in our area, but we decided to go anyways, bad idea! After about 15 minutes of paddling we looked behind us and saw this,
the blackest cloud I had ever seen. We knew this wasn't good, so we pulled over to shore as soon as we could, and sought shelter, which there wasn't very much. They weren't kidding about the flash flood warning, the river rose a couple of inches during that rain, it was horrible. We waited about 30 minutes, and then everything was clear again. The river rose so much that we were able to go over one of the wing dams at the official lock and dam site (which usually stops all of the water).
We had a smooth day other than that and we pulled up to Hannibal around 2:30pm, where we have a place to stay tonight (which makes us happy). This afternoon we were able to visit the Mark Twain museum, his home and Huck Finn's house too. We read all about the history of Mark Twain because this was the town that he grew up in, if you didn't already know. In Huck Finn's home it spoke a lot about slavery, and it happened to mention modern slavery in there. It touched on human trafficking and sexual slavery, we were pretty excited to see that.
We are doing well, we will be sleeping in a home tonight. Please continue to pray for our safety, the water is high and a little scary at times, also for our message, that we would continue to have opportunities to share with families and churches and for the hearts of the people that we are speaking to. Thank you for all your prayers and comments. We miss you all dearly and are so encouraged by your response.
Tim
The Humphrey's, Jonathan was missing, he was painting a white picket fence
8 comments:
So glad you are safe in a friend's home tonight. I talked to Rhonda (Ethan's mom); she updated me on the adventures for today. Whoa! You are right about that being one big black cloud... Praying the Benadryl kicks in, the storms roll away, and the river provides less debris. Love you
How long did the 3 of you argue about who had to be Becky? Very flexible of you, Tim!
love your MOM
I'm glad you didn't get any hail while you were up in 'sota. It hailed like a beast up here last weekend. Sounds like you are doing well. Our prayers go out to you tonight.
Laughing out loud at the picture. Miss ya guys.
Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher lol...that was amazing!! I am so glad to hear that you all are safe!!
May God bless you with some of the nice mild California we have been having here lately! Safe journey! Brett V
WEATHER...May God bless you with some of the nice mild California WEATHER we have been having here lately! Brett V
Tim. I had a dream of you last night; you had come back from your trip and all was well. I have a feeling that this is no ordinary dream - that it must be prophetic. I surely hope it is.
I am glad to hear you guys are surviving. I miss you guys. Keep fighting.
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