Flood Insurance
Wednesday, September the 17th at 6:24 PM
in the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Eight (2 months ago)
J
ust uploaded a few photos from our tiny flood the other day. The village survived relatively unscathed, and I rode my bike around taking pictures as I don't think I'll see this much rain again for a while. There were a lot of people out walking around with their kids, holding them up to see over railings and admire the torrent of muddy water. Thankfully, few people (if any) lost power, so a (working) sump pump could keep the water from getting too deep in one's basement.
As per my most recent post, our basement is almost back to a dry state. The secret is using fans. Lots of big fans blowing 24 hours a day. I tried to get Sally to sit down there and blow on the puddles, but she's not a particularly (wait for it...) big fan of the many legged denizens down below.
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2 months ago
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We lost our power for several hours the day of all this rain which meant of course that the sump pump couldn't run and water started backing up in the basement. The only thing that saved us was an extra long extension cord running across the street to the neighbor's electricity!
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1 month, 3 weeks ago
You and Cindy are in Paris?! Sweet. I hope your trip is filled with wine, cheese, berets, and only the occasional rude treatment.
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1 week, 6 days ago
I had never thought of flinging feces, darn it, that would be much more entertaining than my usual method of arguing about politics, baseless accusations and bewildering metaphores.
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2 weeks ago
Mmmmm.... sharpies.
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3 weeks ago
I saw this as the daily photo, and it totally looked like a picture of outer space! But instead it's an egg on a car.
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1 month ago
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