Mark Martin full time in 09

Yepper, get those cans of Coke out and enjoy some racin' action next year. My guy Mark Martin will be back to drive in the 5 car for Hendrick Motorsports. One last try to win a championship. For this year, let's cheer for Carl Edwards to beat Kyle Busch and win the championship by 200 points after winning the last 5 races. He's second behind Kyle now in the point standings. As Ethan would say, "Dar, Dar," for "car."

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Another storm on July 2

I ran into this big storm on way to Centerville to see my family at the Sharon Bluff Bible Camp. It poured hard for 40 miles and lightly all the rest of the way from Thayer to Centerville. Ran into hail around Osceola. I had to drive 35 MPH much of the way.

Floods of 2008 hit our house

Check out the fun time we had outside and inside on June 4th, 2008. We had fun moving water trying to avoid what would be 6 inches in our basement. Two tornado warnings that night, the second of which was a supercell, the granddaddy of all thunderstorms. F2 or F3 tornado hit just south of town. Barns and stuff destroyed but no homes and no injuries.

We ended up having the basement flood or have backed up sewer six to ten times with 1 to 6 inches deep each time. It came about that we had our drain clog the first time and so it would back up each big rain. Now we are getting a new roof and gutters because of the hail that night plus bunches of small jobs done with FEMA and insurance money. We lost some possessions in our basement and had to have our water heater relit several times. Thanks to our friend, Ken, who helped us light it. Glad we haven't had any major rain since July 25th.