Monday 29 December 2008 - Shoveling Rain
I know I need to post some Christmas pics. Instead I am posting more weather pics. Don't ask me why because I really don't know.
I have an uncle who spent his first 30 years living in the northeast and midwest and has spent the last 35 living happily in the Pacific Northwest. His philosophy about the weather out there is, "At least you don't have to shovel rain."
So what does he know?
 
You most certainly do have to shovel rain when two feet of snow is followed a few days later by 50-degree temps and a day & a half of steady rain-- especially if you have a front walk that collects water. The ditch-&-drain we installed our first summer here does a good job, but it can't handle as much water as we got this past Friday & Saturday.
It was beginning to look a lot like... Seattle. (And yes, I did send these pictures to my uncle.)
While Hubz was shoveling rain outside Saturday, I was mopping it off the basement storage room floor. (At least it's only rain; I know people who have had much worse stuff seep into their basements.) During the 3-1/2 years we've lived here, this has happened only once before, when we got torrential rains the day of Fuzz' birthday party. We learned from that experience to keep all items up off the floor, and fortunately the flooding does not spread into carpeted area... much.
The water comes in through cracks in the basement wall under the front porch, an area we have unaffectionately dubbed "the moldy room". This time around, Hubz asked me to mark each area where water comes in with a different number or letter for future identification purposes and then take some pictures. "How about symbols?" I asked. That was fine with him, as long as each one was different. So I used cuss-word symbols like # and *. Hehe.
Lovely, isn't it?Back to the outside. Our driveway, fortunately, is paved, but the neighbors' is not. They were out of town for the weekend, so Hubz put in some warning stakes to keep them from driving into these deep potholes when they returned. I'm glad he was a good neighbor. So were they.
The overflow from this driveway ran down into our pond...
 
...which in turn overflowed and ran back onto the same neighbor's property.
 
The rain finally ceased during the night hours Saturday and was followed by howling 58-mph winds which kept us awake from about 2-5 am. We were waiting for our power lines to snap, but they never did. However, the winds somehow managed to break the inner (but not the outer) pane of one of our front bedroom windows, an expensive one which we installed less than a year ago. *Sigh* Hubz says there is no sense calling the insurance company since we have a high deductible anyway. Oh well. Coulda been much worse.
Anyway. I think I liked the snow better. (Which is probably a good thing, since we'll get plenty more.)
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Seriously, that is a lot of water! I think, even I, would be praying for snow instead of rain.
~C