WATER. Other train passengers sent

WATER. Other train passengers sent by bus to Minneapolis. Tracks flooded. Some fields flooded. Corn fields look like rice paddies.

It had been raining quite a lot during our trip. The tracks going another route out of Chicago were flooded so the passengers headed that direction were loaded onto buses to catch the train at Minneapolis. I was much relieved to find out it was the other train. The initial announcement I heard had me thinking we would be on buses.

Looking out over the cornfields the water was high enough that the plants stood above it only a little way. The whole scene reminded me of the terraced rice paddies around Bagio in the Philippines.