40 Days …
March 8, 2008 on 3:00 pm | In Local, Oddball |
Update 5 p.m. Saturday: It has finally let up and will settle into a pattern of merely annoying showers rather than the relentless aquatic assault of this morning and afternoon. This is the northeastern corner of my cellar. What fun …
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And I’m hoping it stops tonight …
I can’t remember when I’ve ever seen this much rain. By Feb. 19, it had already been the rainiest February since they began keeping records at Bradley. Now it’s March 8 and the trend has continued. This has got to be the rainiest 40 days since Noah.
I’m sure there are lots of calls for basement pump-outs. I can’t even imagine what the Great Falls look like right now at 3 p.m. As I related a few posts back, I’ve got a construction project going on over my garage. I’ve got water coming into my house from the east. Plus, because of the awkward drainage caused by my currently gutterless garage roof, a window well on the north side of the house is filling up and allowing more water into the cellar.
Emptying buckets and bailing window wells is pretty much what my life looks like right now. In the vernacular of my youth, “This really sucks.”
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The Great Falls are (is?) very impressive, and the blue bridge is safe. The rainfall to beat is apparently from 1955 — when much of Dugway Road was under water.
Comment by Peter Halle — March 8, 2008 #
Thanks Peter. My concerns are even more local at the moment.
The footing drain in my cellar drains into a creek behind my house. If the creek rises to the level of the pipe draining into it, then I will have the creek backing up into my house.
Last time I checked two hours ago, the pipe was still two feet above the water. Is it possible for an agnostic to pray?
Comment by Terry — March 8, 2008 #
Terry, there is an agnostic’s prayer, but it doesn’t directly pertain to flooding. It might help keep your spirits up, however.
Comment by Jim — March 8, 2008 #
Terry, come over to my house for dinner tomorrow, I caught some catfish in the stream coming thru my basement!
By the way, the basement at WHDD is holding a mini-reggatta on Sunday afternoon at 2 PM!
Comment by Marshall Miles — March 8, 2008 #
Terry, I swear if I lived close enough I’d be over in a western CT minute. I feel your rain! Good luck. This sounds like it’s one of those life’s most stressful moments. Courage.
Comment by Terrence McCarthy — March 8, 2008 #
That really does suck. A friend of mine who lives in North Canaan (on Cedar Lane) posted a video on her Facebook page showing the flooding on her street. She says it’s a bad as she’s ever seen it. We don’t have flooding here in Rochester, but from Friday through this morning we got an ice and snow storm. I’d say there’s about a foot of snow outside right now, plus a nice layer of ice underneath it all.
Comment by Amy — March 9, 2008 #