Friends and Family, as you may know the rain poured and the rivers and creeks are flooded. We are fighting a battle that it seems we are winning -but there is a cost involved. The flood waters in St. Peters are about what the flood levels were back in 1973. That is dangerously high for local farms and many families. We are fortunate enough to have a Corp. of Engineers levee that was built after the Flood of 1993(when we had over 5 feet of water on the first floor of our home).
Herb and Phil, along with help from Kyle W, Harold Y, Nicholas, Ted and David Bross, have been raising the lower farm levee to attempt to keep the water off of the lower fields. Many of our fiends have not been as fortunate. We have been winning the water fight because of hard work, no sleep and the fact that other levees have been topped and then broken.
Jeanne and John Bethmann and John's brother Jim and Elaine have built a ring levee around their homes. It appears that they will keep the water out or their homes - but the crops this year are mostly lost.
This will truly be a very difficult year for farmers across many states. Fuel prices weren't bad enough!
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Mary and Herb,
Please feel free to call if you need a hand. Water is over our fields and the house is flooded too. So there isn't much we can do right now. I know what it is like to work long hard hours. We just got through with that. Thanks to the Bethmann's ring levee a lot of us have equipment out of the water. Keep in touch,
Mickey
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