I Think

The first two years I lived here, I dug in my back yard, until I had a channel that sends excess rainwater fanning over the water company property next door. Right now, there is more water in my neighborhood than I have seen in 18 years. The water in the water company property and the street in front of it has lots of deep water. The people on the other side of it had to move their cars to higher ground. We can't flood here, but by golly I wouldn't care to drive the street tonight.

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There is lots of flooding around town. But, as I have so smugly noted numerous times, we are relatively high and dry where I am. My yard is saturated above the ground line. What I worry about most is the effect of so much water for so long a time on tree roots and the fact my trees are on average 60' tall.

Shewolf checked in. The yard is soggy but the house is dry. Weather forecast says they may get a break from rain today, only 20% chance.

Kind of nice when a little foresight and some hard work pays off. Hope your place and the trees around it stay upright and where they belong.

I think the trees will be ok if soaked for only a few days. If it gets into weeks, then you'll have a problem.

I've been looking on facebook. With one exception, no family and friends posting that I can see.
I messaged PDiddie to ask if he knew anything about Tak, but he doesn't know anything.

The reason I reconfigured the ground behind my house was to channel the water the school parking lot sends my way. It was washing away the back corner of my house. It had dropped about six inches.

I think we have an old email address for him. I'll try sending something there. May also have a phone number buried somewhere.

Been watching the news conference on CNN. Lots of pictures and pats on the back for first responders. More rain expected your way on Thursday and Friday.

Do you have a back up plan for yourselves if things get dicey? I know it shouldn't flood, but the people that were 50+ feet from the river banks were also saying that before their houses got washed away.

Imagine a flat plain that slopes for a dozen miles, with no creeks or rivers running through. That's only a slight exaggeration of the terrain here. The trees are a worry, but you can't have everything. My old boss has said we can shelter at the apartments if things are bad, but I don't anticipate that.

I was painting on one of my crafts, in sunshine, when a steady drizzle of rain started as a slight smattering and increased rapidly, until I had to get out of it. This with no dark clouds and the sun beaming. I tell ya it's a conspiracy.

A little while ago, I found an old speaker in storage and spliced it to the connection. It sounded good, but weak on one side and dead on the other.

I looked for Tak's email address or phone number. We no longer have it, unfortunately.

Meanwhile, I posted on Merry Andrew and Seaglass's Facebook pages to check in on them. Will let you know if I hear anything.

seaglass has been playing Scrabble on FB intermittently. I think she last played a round with me Sunday or yesterday, but she'd been quiet for a few days before that.

We will eventually figure it all out, I guess.

I picked up my check for sick time today. Forty hours, plus an unexpected bonus. Now that's going out in style.

The storm began last night, when we were asleep. Thunder and heavy rain. Rocky barking at the sounds. By six we decided we had had enough and got out of bed. It's nearly eight and still the sky rumbles and wet stuff falls. Rocky was up to his ankles when he peed. I have been reading prognostics of rain like this through winter. WTF

Rocky found a kitten sleeping on the bottom runner of the wooden fence at the cul de sac. He was barred from grabbing it by my wire fence that runs with the surveyor stakes from the corners. I took a stick and pulled the kitten off and pushed it through the bottom of the wooden fence. Rocky continued to throw a fit. The way he was going at the fence, I feared he would tear it down or figure out how to go over the top. So I took several rolls of fence wire and loose sections and put them all along the line against the wire fence. Still he tried his best to get at the spot he had been when he spotted the kitten. Finally, we went back inside the house. But, a while later, I saw him back at the fence, lunging at something. It turned out, that he discovered more than a cat. He was trying to kill an eight or nine inch turtle. After I took it away, mrs egarblythe dropped it off in the weeds behind the bank of mail boxes.

He's quite a guard dog.

I have never had a dog like him.