I am fed up with this rain. I went outside this morning and shook my fist at the sky. We have had so much rain, water is now coming up, out of the floor drains in the basement. Fortunately, the sump pump was able to keep up with the incoming water, so the floor was only covered by about 1/4 inch or so. It is starting to dry out now. The unofficial rain gage reads 4.25 inches, since about midnight last night (about a twelve hour period).
We are having a little lull right now, but it is supposed to start raining again soon. Unfortunately, the rain came as all the leaves were falling, so every gutter and surface drain was clogged, which led to a large back yard puddle. I took opportunity to clean out the gutters before the rain returned. We are the definitely in a wet period, as we have had at least five instances of receiving over 4 inches of rain in a 24 hour period since August of 2005. The last one was in June, when several people in Sullivan county were killed because there house was washed away by creek.
The creek at the end of our road is flowing fast and furious. When I went to the store around 11 am, it was almost over the small bridge, it which point the town closes the road and we become marooned.
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