One More Thing
Even though the street leading to the highway is flooded 2 feet over the road and the swamps around here are 6 feet deeper then the usual foot deep, Lisa and I are nice and dry. We're sitting on ledge about 10 feet above the swamps. Rainwater is running off into the swamp nicely. Although the windows are leaking around the seals. Crappy McMansions!!! If only we had a way to store up all this water and feed it back to the lawn all summer...
My garden is dead.
My garden is dead.
posted by Dean ASC at 12:54 PM
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We're dry, too. We haven't planted our garden, yet. But I did put down grass seed just before the rain started and I think that's all over-watered by now.
Only trouble road in Burlington that we travel is Bedford Rd. by MITRE. The field is a pond now and spilling into the road at the Sun campus intersection. Not entirely closed, but two lanes are blocked off with sawhorses.
I read your blog this morning Paul. I too grew up in a house with not just a wet basement, the foundation was fieldstones with a sand floor. We were 3 feet above the water table. The basement had a pump running all day long every day all year long. One year my dad and I caught sunfish in a lake nearby and put them in the basement. They thrived for about a year then we moved.
I will never buy a house with any hint of a wet basement. Yet I find the idea of living in Frank Loyd Wright's "Falling Waters" charming.
Tom, call me if you need the truck.
I was just thinking about 2 things:
1. At least it's not frigging SNOW!
2. Will this give us a mosquito problem?
I heard if it was snow, due to the difference in density of snow and liquid water, that it would be 15 feet deep.
Yes mosquito's will be pretty bad this year. Especially in the middle of all the swamps that surround Nicole Ave. I wonder if I can get pure DEET and just make myself a flea collar out of it.
Rumor has it Route 1 just closed.
Was it an intentional joke when they named Canal Street?
Rte closed late yesterday afternoon. Maybe it reopened and closed again. Canal Street was really bad before they put in the new drains. I never saw a storm like this but three days of light rain would fill O'keefe parking lot 4 feet deep. I have some hilarious pictures of one lone car visible just at the roofline in the middle of Lake O'keefe. Salem State was instrumental in getting the city to try to fix Canal St because they have to cancel classes if there's no parking. Still, there is only so much that a 3 foot diameter pipe can carry.
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