I sustained minimal damage - so far. I have the sinking feeling that we'll have more flooding tonight.
Music fest was remarkably dry until I hopped on my bike to leave, and rained just a little on the way home. Woke up later to the sound of rain absolutely freaking pouring down and tons of thunder. First thought: I bet my neighborhood is flooding. Lo and behold. Despite all the construction for the past few months to alleviate the flooding problem, an absolute torrent came rushing through my back yard.
My back door is about three feet off the ground. The waterline is right at the threshold, and some water got in under the door and also up through the floor in the back bedroom.
Everything that wasn't on a shelf in the shed drowned.
A couple hundred dollars worth of yard work I've done in the past two weeks is gone. The hydrangeas I planted a few years ago that were looking so beautiful this year were torn up. I have a massive sinkhole in the back yard. My back gate probably needs to be replaced. And a couple hundred pounds of gravel from the drive washed up into one pile and took out the neighbor's fence.
On the upside, Bonnie has gotten much more comfortable with thunderstorms. She used to get antsy and shaky whenever there was thunder in the distance. Last night with constant, incredibly loud booms she just hung out by the bed.
Gee, it's starting to rain again...
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I guess the house fire on Jackson, and Tom and my race weren't the only storm casualties this morning. Can you get some of that money back from your insurance company?
ReplyDeletethe damage is less than my deductible, it's just a matter of cleaning it all up :/
ReplyDeleteI feel your pain. I spent so much time, effort, and money on my yard this year only to see all that mulch I spent days shoveling and spreading settling into my front lawn. Bedding plants pushed up to the surface, drowned. The gardenia bush I am trying to nurse back to health...roots exposed. Sigh.
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