This is what we woke up to at 7 AM yesterday morning. When all was said and done, 11.41 inches were recorded on our rain gauge. Needless to say, I was out there until midnight in the rubber ducky suit cleaning culverts, diverting puddles and making sure our trees were solidly tied down. Over-saturated soil, high winds and baby trees aren't the best of friends. The ducks were out as well, and thoroughly enjoyed turning our lawn into a pond. It's always incredible to me how fast our land recovers from these incidents. Today was very peaceful with intermittent sprinkles and all sorts of interesting groundscores poking out of the earth: broken glass, a neon yellow golf ball, a .22 caliber bullet, and a strange, broken owl/raccoon pottery piece that I found in a storm drain.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
I don't think the heavy stuff's gonna come down for quite a while...
This is what we woke up to at 7 AM yesterday morning. When all was said and done, 11.41 inches were recorded on our rain gauge. Needless to say, I was out there until midnight in the rubber ducky suit cleaning culverts, diverting puddles and making sure our trees were solidly tied down. Over-saturated soil, high winds and baby trees aren't the best of friends. The ducks were out as well, and thoroughly enjoyed turning our lawn into a pond. It's always incredible to me how fast our land recovers from these incidents. Today was very peaceful with intermittent sprinkles and all sorts of interesting groundscores poking out of the earth: broken glass, a neon yellow golf ball, a .22 caliber bullet, and a strange, broken owl/raccoon pottery piece that I found in a storm drain.
