Man o man! Have we had the rain and lots of crashing and banging to go with!
The storm that rolled through today was unreal... it thundered with such force you could feel it in your chest! It just shook everything... it verged on the creepy. Of course, we desperately needed the rain, that's for sure. I'm more than ready however, for it to back off for a couple of days.
I could not put off yard work, so per the norm, I mowed the lawn that was nearly six inches high even though I hurt like hell. What a surprise. I knew it was going to rain again, so I had decided I would mow lawn until I ran out of gas or it started to rain.
I ran out of gas (thankfully with only a small part of the back yard not done) but after putting everything away, I made it into the house just before it came down in buckets.
What made it particularly odd was how slow the storm moved. It rained so hard and for so long with no let up in sight! It just kept raining! There flash flood warnings out everywhere. My Dad called and said the storm drains where he lives couldn't handle the water and his front yard was flooded. That hasn't happened since the city put in the new curbs and gutters and that was more than 14 years ago!
I have to go down there tomorrow to check the basement to ensure there isn't water runoff down there. Dad can't navigate the steps much because there isn't a railing and with the house being so old, the steps are very narrow and steep so it's safer that he doesn't go down.
I need to go down to take him groceries and do laundry and so on and so forth anyway. Being as sick as I was recently and my life being, well, my life... I need to go spend the day, period. It's been too long since I spent a whole day with him. He'll like that. I just have to cover up how much I hurt.
So, if I'm going to do that... I need to hit the sack! Hopefully the cold front will finish moving through, the heat and humidity will ease down and I won't feel like I'm trying to breathe through Jell-o.
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