Friday May 12th Rain.
Saturday May 13th Heavier Rain.
Sunday May 14th More Rain.
Monday May 15th Rain.
Tuesday May 16th (TBD but it looks like rain)
Dad spent 8 hours on Saturday hooking up cable in the livingroom/crippled bedroom. It was not easy. Plaster walls, tin ceiling, etc. etc. Mom was pissed. To make a long involved story short he finally hooked it up but mom is still mad. Saturday night dad went to Lowes to buy another sump pump. His other one burned out from running non stop due to the rain.
Sunday MOTHERS DAY!! Mom had such a great day. No breakfast ready for her, no special treatment, just dad working outside trying to prevent the house from flooding by building a dam with the neighbor. We called the police and closed our road. Seems the stream down the street that usually drains was clogged due to another neighbor plowing snow and sand into it all winter. Now the stream was coming down the street to our driveway, the dumping down the driveway into the backyard. Not good. It ended up washing a 3ft deep gulley in the driveway and turned our backyard into a pond until the dam was built. It got so bad the town called in a backhoe to open up the drain...unfortunately it fell low on the priority list and it never made it.
The river near our house is almost over the banks. Dad was up every two hours on Sunday night to watch it to make sure it was not overflowing. Mom and Dad had an evacuation plan in place to go to Paul and Jena's house in Bedford until we found out the road there no longer exists...it was washed away. Oh and all the roads but one into and out of town are closed too. So much fun.
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