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Rain, rain, go away
and don’t come back for a lot of days! There was a sliver of sunshine this morning when I dropped my husband at the train, but it was short lived. A friend from the Berkshires wrote that the daffodils were painting themselves new shades of yellow...........ours here, while not out, are probably rotting in the soil.
We live in a town with rivers that tend to overflow with just a few days of rain, so you can imagine what is going on now. I have a friend who lives VERY close to the river and the last storm a few weeks ago she had over 6’ of water in her basement. I do not even know how you cope with that. Her comment was that she wished these 100 year floods would stop occurring every 5 or 6 years!
But we are lucky, our house sits high enough and even tho we are surrounded on three sides by woods-green belt-and a brook, we do not have an issue. I was watching Dusty (my cat--who SHALL be a topic one of these days) go up and down to the basement through her little cat door and since she has not been taking a life preserver with her or a towel and comes up dry, I figure it is OK. But just to be sure, I just went down and checked and dry as a bone. Neighbors on both sides have sump pumps (plural) and they have been running nonstop.
I joked yesterday about wanting a duckboat to bring me home--they actually are using them in several communities to transport people around. This is just crazy. Rhode Island is really under water.
I take some blame--I bought myself a new car a month ago--a cute little hardtop convertible with a sunroof!! So of course it figures it would rain virtually every day since I got it! But if the weather people are right, I might actually use it this weekend the way it was intended!! And then off to New Orleans for a week. WhooHoo.
Thank you again Kate for allowing me to play in your sandbox!! And thank you to all of you who are actually commenting on my nonsense. I am having fun. Of course I am neglecting my FaceBook page, but maybe that is a good thing!!
Play nice everyone, I am off to work.
Ciao’
I just saw some pics, on the early news, of houses with water up to their roof tops. I didn’t hear where those communities were, but has that ever happened in Massachusetts in living memory? Simply Amazing.