Post #816094 by No No on Tue, Jun 24, 2025 9:38 AM

                      CHILD RESCUE

It was the start of the rainy season.....hot, muggy, sort of like Tupelo Mississippi. If you have ever been there you know I mean. I had rented a room in a house on the flat lands to complete the landscape plans. Up in the mountains high above the town, a violent rain storm was dumping inches of rain. The little creek at the end of the street became a raging river. The flood waters came racing up the street. A little girl playing in front of her house next door was swept off her feet. I heard the screams and rushed out of the house. Running through the knee high water, I scooped her up and put her on my shoulders, all the while heading for high ground. I made a game of the situation and by the time I placed her in her mother's arms, she was laughing. It all happened so fast....from calm to chaos and back to calm again. The flood waters receded. I didn't get much done on my landscape plans that day.