good morning all, 2.09 inches since midnight...and it's coming down hard, lots of yellow on the radar all over the area.
I won't flood here, not like the folks down by the river. One reason I made sure I was at 34 feet above sea level. What will flood is the front and rear of my property, endangering the turtles (now they I probably should move...) and will leave a foot of water, or more, over my driveway until it goes down. And the rear, I don't want to think about the orchard. The house should be ok, though I do worry about the Generac being only raised up a few inches off the ground. This system will be a test to see if that was a good idea.
Frankly bummed about boating, turns out the guy with nice Sabreline near Annapolis MD accepted my offer, and then confirmed my original fear that the boat would not perform properly. It took me calls everywhere, including to a wonderfully helpful guy at the home office in Maine to send me a build sheet on the boat, and to my utter dismay, it did not have the engines the seller said it did. Had the original underpowered diesels that almost everyone opted to go up to models about 50hp more each. Big difference in boat performance and explained why the seller could not get his boat over 16 knots when it was supposed to do over 20 knots. I don't care about top end, it's what it will cruise easily at and the boat was totally misrepresented. Like going to look at a Mustang GT and finding out it had a six in it. Grrrr. I knew something was wrong, the listing broker was sure fuzzy on details, and kept saying "oh they all run like this". No. they don't. Well, going to continue to keep my eyes open. This is such a caveat emptor situation. No one tells you the truth... Wish I could afford a new boat and miss all this nonsense, but I can't, so the hunt continues.
Depending upon how the area looks later this morning, intend to drive an hour East to Swan Quarter, a local fishing depot, and try to get some fresh shrimp off the fishing boats there. And then we'll have a shrimp fry for dinner. If not, I have frozen shrimp. Not sure this is the best day to go traveling around with flooded roads.
Oregon breaks our heart. Prayers to the families, all those innocents lost to mental illness. Everyone wants to evaluate, classify and help the mentally ill before they do things like this, and we all know that is very, very hard to do. It likely would take an unacceptable police state to avoid all these tragedies and we don't want that either.
Places of public assembly (remember that constitutional right?) are becoming more dangerous all the time, too many soft targets.
rain is pounding on the roof. Still dark, wonder what I'll find when it gets light enough...if there will be water or grass out there.
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