Post by LS on Oct 14, 2005 23:03:52 GMT -5
mrshooter said:
LS, have you seen Noah's ark floating by your home recently? Nope Shooter- I've been far too busy building my own!!
I'm grabbing tree limbs to build it as they float by...If this ever ends- it could come in handy...Hopefully if the wood dries out in time for the cold weather...I can burn it to keep warm.
And I'm not sure which is worse...the rain or the wind!! A steady 30mph with gusts 60+ driving the beastly monsoon...Power on-power off-on-off-on-off...as soon as they'd get it back up, another tree would go down and take it out again. I don't even know what time it is anymore- I gave up trying to keep up with re-setting the clocks days ago...and re-recording the message on my answering machine. Whatever's not floating or sinking in mud- in addition to fighting against the driving rains- mother nature's taken tree limbs, trash cans, lawn furniture, roof shingles, shopping carts...and turned things into a rather nasty game of dodge-the-projectiles.
The storm drains can't handle the deluge, the pumps can only handle 2 inches per day...we're getting more than that per hour. At least sections of most major roadways are closed- under 5 or 6 ft. of water...finding a backroad that isn't underwater (or blocked by fallen trees) is even rarer and a lot of them are caving in.
My yard looks like the swamps of Jersey (though as far as that goes- that kinda feels like home ;D )- even the higher sections where the water isn't laying on the surface- if you step on it, the water quishes up and your foot starts sinking in the mud. It's covered with enough broken tree limbs that if I taped 'em together- I'd probably get 2 or 3 whole trees outta them.
Just incredible...we'd gone 16 straight weeks without a single drop of rain- and now...as of yesterday our total was 14 1/4" since last Friday...so far the total for today is just over another 5 1/2"- and still counting.
And to think just last week I was saying how crazy this was getting...the beginning of October and we were still in the muggy mid-80s with the AC going ...and eerily noticing how the trees haven't even begun to change color and fall- they were still as green as they were in June!! Normally leave raking should've already commenced!!
And now here it is a week later and ironically- the grass and the plants that have been a dismal shade of brown from being scorched all summer long (despite futile attempts at watering) have regenerated and greened up- and are even sprouting new growth - at the time when they should normally be browning out and dying back for the winter...and the trees are still perfectly green. So now the question remains- will the leaves ever finally change color and drop...and will that happen before the snow comes...or will we be raking leaves from atop snow drifts??