In the morning we found that the ditch had gone over it’s banks, enough that it was flowing *over* the foot bridge, over our neighbor’s driveway and over the top of the culvert at the end of the street! There was so much water, moving so fast that it dug through the separation between the two pieces of metal culvert and left a man sized hole there!
Drainage Ditch and Foot Bridge
Debris from flooding in neighbors driveway.
Main Drainage Cluvert with Debris
Hole dug by the water over the culvert.
The storm damaged the back end of the garden – luckily we hadn’t planted earlier that day like we had planned - it would have washed out all my cucumber and basil seeds if we had. As it is we’ll have to re-mulch… gar!
Garden Damage
Garden Damage 2
The ramp to the highway was flooded – the southbound on ramp always floods but this started 1/2 a mile back from the ramp and went all the way up under the underpass where the land rises just a bit. I was very annoyed at hubby for driving us through this… we didn’t, however, drive back through it to get home – we took the long way ’round.
Flooding approaching the highway ramps.
Flooding behind the truck stop.
Flooding off the Pennyrile.
The ‘long way ’round’ took us through Earlington – where the Earlington Lake’s spillway had totally exceeded it’s capacity and flooded the low lying areas around it. All of these pictures are actually after the water had been receeding a bit – the height of the flooding hit between 2 and 4 AM, I believe, and the pictures were taken between 10 and 11 AM.
Earlington flooding - hope these folks moved their dogs!
Earlington Flooding
So I’ve been knitting away – sorry no update on Wednesday; I had crafty-brain-melt or something and could not figure out what to post about.
I’m up to 17″ on the vest back and 13″ on the shawl. I’ve also gotten faster on the Shawl – it now only takes me 3 hours per section (cable cross to cable cross) instead of 4. Whew! I’ll take what I can get! The first progress report can be seen here.
Pasa Doble 13"
Kimono Vest 17"
Well Husband has stated that there is room for improvement on the Rabbit Hutch design – which we knew going in, but hey. The sewage system was indeed hit rather hard by the straw from the bedding boxes but that burden has lessened a bit now that it’s all packed down but cleaning out that system wasn’t fun… or at least I figure it wasn’t from the expression on Hubby’s face – he is so awesome that he did it for me! I wuvs my Hubby.
Anyway – he put together a 10′ pole (no jokes) with a wooden disk on the end to snake out the catch pipes – it’s oookie since some of the mess invariably comes out the end your working on, but it does work. Now I get to shovel up all that ‘compost’ and spread it on the garden… fun, fun.
As for the escapee…
Yoder and Wonka are 30″ cages instead of 36″ cages currently – were upgrading as budget allows and these are the only two still waiting. We’ll apparently the got rowdy enough that they shoved the cages off their support beams. Yoder’s cage slipped down enough that the hole in the wire cage to access his wooden bedding box slipped below the box and he was able to wiggle out into the free world… the unfenced free world full of roaming neighborhood cats and dogs. (Rabbit Photos are Here).
I’m not sure how long he was out yesterday – in the pouring rain – before our awesome neighbors spotted him and came to let us know (did I mention they are the most awesome neighbors?!), but Hubby said he walked out there and Yoder was just hanging out by the Hutch. He was able to right the cage and then just pick the little guy up and put back in his home – no problem!
Yay Neighbors! Yay Hubby! and Yay Yoder for not being a skittish turd!