The Big Flood

TOP OF FENCE GOING TO COURSE / TOP OF FENCE GOING TO OUR YARD

On Saturday it rained so hard and so fast here that we thought our house was going to go under. The golf course behind the house had waves of water gushing over it. In between our house and the course is a small gully with a run off drain from a local creek, it completely flooded and was spilling over. The water raised to about six feet above what it normally is. Luckily the water receded rather quickly in the end but The whole while this was happening I was on the phone with my sister M, who must have gotten a little annoyed that I kept interrupting her good news about chapter requests and moving just to give her the water update. Poor girl, if it isn't C distracting me every two minutes it is me with silly updates. Anyway the flood had me thinking:

I know it is an older joke - but it makes me laugh and think; how may life lines do we need? Maybe more than three.

It had been raining for days and days, and a terrible flood had come over the land. The waters rose so high that one man was forced to climb onto the roof of his house.As the waters rose higher and higher, a man in a rowboat appeared, and told him to get in. "No," replied the man on the roof. "I have faith in the Lord; the Lord will save me." So the man in the rowboat went away. The man on the roof prayed for God to save him.The waters rose higher and higher, and suddenly a speedboat appeared. "Climb in!" shouted a man in the boat. "No," replied the man on the roof. "I have faith in the Lord; the Lord will save me." So the man in the speedboat went away. The man on the roof prayed for God to save him.The waters continued to rise. A helicopter appeared and over the loudspeaker, the pilot announced he would lower a rope to the man on the roof. "No," replied the man on the roof. "I have faith in the Lord; the Lord will save me." So the helicopter went away. The man on the roof prayed for God to save him.The waters rose higher and higher, and eventually they rose so high that the man on the roof was washed away, and alas, the poor man drowned.Upon arriving in heaven, the man marched straight over to God. "Heavenly Father," he said, "I had faith in you, I prayed to you to save me, and yet you did nothing. Why?" God gave him a puzzled look, and replied "I sent you two boats and a helicopter, what more did you expect?"