I don't think we're in Utah anymore

I am trying to get used to Oklahoma. It seems so very different from Utah where i have lived my whole life until now. One difference is the storms here. In Utah when we get a good big rain the prayers usually tend to be "we are thankful for the much needed water." In Oklahoma when we get a good big rain the prayers have been "please bless us and our homes to be safe." Both views are totally valid in the respective states. Starting Sunday night and into Monday we got over 4.5 inches of rain. It was a wild storm. It kept me up much of the night with the incredibly loud thunder and with the worry that our house was going to flood. I had to get up at 4:30 AM after i remembered that the one remaining box in our house was full of our family photos and was sitting in the corner of the house most likely to flood. The usually small creek behind our house did flood well into our yard but luckily did not make it to the house. It rose so high and so fast that it washed the cement/wood bridge away. The next day Nate had to drive a different way to work because the usual road was flooded. The Caney river through town reaches flood level at 13 feet and by the end of the day was near 17 feet. It was incredible. We were in awe as we drove to gymnastics, everything was flooded. The baseball and soccer fields had turned into small lakes. We could only see the tops of flags and structures at the mini-golf place. It was very strange.