Literally

The ark my family has been building, and in the process living on, is a figurative one only.

You knew that, right?

No one really thinks we're constructing an enormous gopherwood vessel on our one acre of prairie land in Illinois.

Of course they don't.

But after last night, I'm thinking we might want to start.

This is the street, or at least it used to be, in front of our house covered in water.

Please pray for the hundreds of thousands of people in the Chicagoland metro area who are without power today, whose basements are flooded and who are expecting more rain before the day is done.