More than understood. Sending hope and good thoughts your way.

Lets pray he comes home safe. Stay positive and hope that he is okay somewhere.

Take care of your family John. The thoughts of the community are with you.

Prayers are certainly with you and yours John….

I’m still waiting for the celebrity telethon for the midwest….or Kanye to tell the country that Bush hates farmers….or media outcry for how poor the response from FEMA was to the affected area….nevermind that more people and tons more land are affected….

Heres hoping everything is gonna be ok.

my thoughts are with you and your family

from the Pacific NW. I hope everything turns out fine.

from the heartland. South Dakota

I saw this thread earlier today and didn’t comment. I was hoping when I came back tonight there would be a good news update.

I’ll have a good thought.

the news is bad actually. no sign of Jack, they’ve searched most of the county on foot, airplane, chopper, atv. They think he got washed away.

they are waiting until the waters recede more right now…they have had divers in the creek but the water is too high and murky for them to search everything.,

I hope everything works out well. Family comes before baseball so please take all the time you need to ensure Jeri and her family are okay. I hope that her brother is soon found safe and sound.

I don’t know what to say.

That sucks.

Hope Jack turns up healthy and in a safe place.

Regarding the comments/questions about the flooding:
It’s very, very bad this year. The cities where I live (Iowa City) and work (Cedar Rapids) have been devastated by the floods. In particular, lots of homes in Cedar Rapids will have to be torn down. Some of the flooding was outside of the 500 year flood plain (meaning that there was a < .002 probability of the area being flooded). Since banks require flood insurance only on homes with the 100 year flood plain, many didn’t have flood insurance (nationally, very few people outside of 100 year flood plains have flood insurance simply because the risk is so tiny). I’m afraid that many of those folks are going to be looking at bankruptcy.

The problems really started in the winter. Nearly every city in Iowa had record or near record snow totals. When spring comes, the snows melts and eventually flows to the rivers … add in above average spring rain totals, and suddenly there was a very big problem. Kind of a “perfect storm” from a flood perpective.

The floods of 1993 have been a measuring stick around here, with people saying it would never flood worse than it did in 1993. Well, this year was not only worse, but much, much worse.

Luckily, my own family was only minimally affected.

For you and your family

Go out to your family from ours John.

...and thoughts and prayers.

say is that sucks

I’ll send frequent, positive thoughts to your family.

we all wish for a safe return