One More Day Part II

   Smack-dab in the middle of my sincere quest to clean up, we attended our grandson, Isaak’s, Eagle Court of Honor.

 The Eagles' Nest.  Proud Papa on left.

Grandpa furnished the pizza on the day they planted trees for the big Eagle Project.

That was on Sunday.

   Monday evening, a cloudburst with strong winds, hail, and torrents of rain  pounded us soundly.

   We marveled at the rainbow afterwards.

 According to Genesis, after Noah's flood God put the rainbow in the sky as the sign of His promise that He would never again destroy the earth with flood (Genesis 9:13–17):

I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth. And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.

 Did you know that Joseph Smith promised that the second coming of the Christ would not occur in any year in which a rainbow is seen?

   Until Amy sounded the alarm again, we did not know that muddy water was gushing into the basement from the window well.  At least it was clean water last time.  We didn’t quite have the carpet squares re-laid from our last flood.  Oh, about two weeks ago.

  Before going to bed, we watch the news:

May 20 2013 02:24 pm

MOORE, Okla. • A monstrous tornado at least a half-mile wide roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds up to 200 mph. At least 51 people were killed, including at least 20 children, and officials said the death toll was expected to rise.

The storm laid waste to scores of buildings in Moore, a community of 41,000 people about 10 miles south of the city. Block after block lay in ruins. Homes were crushed into piles of broken wood. Cars and trucks were left crumpled on the roadside. The National Weather Service issued an initial finding that the tornado was an EF-4 on the enhanced Fujita scale, the second most-powerful type of twister.

Tuesday update:

May 21 2013 06:15 am • Updated 2 hours ago

Moore, Okla. • Helmeted rescue workers raced Tuesday to complete the search for survivors and the dead in the Oklahoma City suburb where a mammoth tornado destroyed countless homes, cleared lots down to bare red earth and claimed 24 lives, including those of nine children.

Scientists concluded the storm was a rare and extraordinarily powerful type of twister known as an EF5, ranking it at the top of the scale used to measure tornado strength. Those twisters are capable of lifting reinforced buildings off the ground, hurling cars like missiles and stripping trees completely free of bark.

The death toll was revised downward from 51 after the state medical examiner said some victims may have been counted twice in the confusion.

   Our triumphs and troubles suddenly seemed insignificant.