High stress

High stress day. High stress situations humble you and make you really inconvenience others, it also gives you the opportunity to show vulnerability and depend on others. Well I reached that today. Zaky and I woke up at 6:30 this morning. I stepped/ sloshed out of bed. sloshed to Zaky's room. What an awful site, my whole house several inches deep in water, and no husband to wake up to fix it. I rushed down stairs flipped off the power then went upstairs to my neighbors. In tears I told him what I found, woke up the daughter and asked her if she could stay with Zaky. After I changed Zaky and made his breakfast, the dad, and both sisters were down. Dema took Zaky and Darene her dad and Damos their housekeeper, Mark and Bev (our American friends) and the other 2 neighbors in our building, had the whole house clean, carpets out and floors dry by 9am. Zaky refused to sleep and was taken back upstairs, Leayall and Darene went through every room in the house cleaning and tidying (folded socks and cleaned pots, things that had nothing to do with the flood). Our Swiss friend Elizabeth started a fire to dry out the couches. Eventually it will stop raining outside and the carpets will dry. So I am typing this message with an electric borrowed heater and loaned rugs at my feet. Unfortunately the biggest hit were Zaky's books, but thankfully he wont know all his books are warped. Bill called long enough for me to vent and tell him I love him. He is doing very well. He will be speaking at a church on Sunday so please keep him in your prayers.
PS: no pictures!