Wednesday was Elaine's second day home.
The Flood song - second verse, worse than the first!
In March when we had the flood, a long-time local told me that was within 6 inches of the worst he's ever seen. Well, we met his 6 inches and raised it another six inches yesterday.
We had a hellacious thunderstorm Elaine looked out the window and said, "there's water in the garden." Sure enough it was rising and rising fast. I quick moved the car to higher ground so it wouldn't get flooded again. And just in time! By the time I walked back, our little road, "Bajuras Blvd.," was a raging, rising knee-deep river. The bar deck was completely under water.
We watched the water rise over the deck next to the house and then over foundation lip, a level we've been told it's never reached before. We watched it work it's way up the wall that is there - just in case - to keep water out of the kitchen and the downstairs rooms. We started moving stuff to higher locations.
Water never came over the wall but it was higher than anyone ever remembers it being. As the water receded, Elaine cleaned up mud and water around the house and I started on the bar. Water got into the bottom of the little refrigerator but not the big one. All the glassware needs to be SCRUBBED. But we learned from the last flood and there wasn't much on or near the floor that could be damaged.
Today the forecast is for more rain, more thunderstorms. The ground is saturated and I hear there is still water across the road down toward Villa Tropical. I'm going to go check that out in a bit.
There are more pictures on Flickr. Ignore the "date taken" time stamp. The camera was set with the wrong date. The pics were in fact taken on May 30.
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