[MRM]

Went to church this morning and the senior minister wasn't in the pulpit. I didn't think much of it since we're coming to the end of the church fiscal year and he told me that he hadn't taken enough vacation and was facing "use it or lose it" time. But the assistant pastor said that his wife's brother, who was a farmer in that area drownded in one of his fields trying to open a clogged drainage opening. Kind of brought the thing home. It may not be on a Katrina scale, but it's pretty bad.