The Night the Floodwaters Rose
In June of 2008, Linda Crawley stood on the front porch of her Cedar Rapids home and watched the Iowa River swallow her street. Water...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Exodus 14:13-14.
In June of 2008, Linda Crawley stood on the front porch of her Cedar Rapids home and watched the Iowa River swallow her street. Water crept past the mailbox, then the garden fence, then the first porch step. Her husband Gary had died seven months earlier. Her savings were thin. And now the river was coming for the only thing she had left.…
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