Burningbird
Well, we lucked out. Debby was slow moving, which wasn’t good. But it degraded over land. Better yet, it grabbed and incorporated a dry air mass that kept most of the heavier overnight rain away. We lost power, so I don’t have an accurate rain measurement from my system. However, according to the University of […]
Previous places I’ve lived have had emergencies that come up quickly and are usually over quickly. I’ve lived through a major ice storm in Grande Isle, Vermont, earthquakes in Washington and California, blizzards in Washington and Massachusetts, even Mount St. Helens, in Yakima, Washington. A hurricane, though, is a different beastie. It’s like living in […]
Debby is a hell of a bad name for a hurricane. I can imagine it on Facebook: Marked safe from Debby Nope. Anyway, we don’t know how it will be. We know Savannah is on the path. We know we will be getting some winds, but not especially strong winds. And we know the biggest […]
By my rain gauge yesterday, we had 3.98 inches of rain, and that’s not accounting for what fell after Midnight. We’ve had heavy rains before, but this one seemed to be a particular problem in the O’Fallon area. Last night we tried to flush our toilets, and they weren’t going anywhere. The seal on one […]
Thankfully, the cold front dipped and we didn’t get all the expected rain last night. Because we had a breather, the load in the sewer system has gone down enough so we can use our plumbing again. Working toilet…hot shower. Seems so mundane, but no pretty jewel or cool electronic gadget is as nice as […]