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Mmph. I definitely torqued something in the back of my neck funny at some point yesterday. Regardless, I got up and walked briskly to the library and back via a longer route than usual, due to the lake that now resides where the park used to be at the end of my parking lot.
As many of you who live in this town know, the river floods about this time every year. Usually this is not a big deal, and it's not that big a deal this time, except that now my apartment building is on the spit of land that essentially becomes a spindly peninsula every spring. River on one side, park that angles down nearly to the river on the other which, by not having a dike between it and the river, becomes a rather spectacular place for fish to swim through the tennis court fence and around the trunks of many trees until the water subsides. Now, granted, according to the building management company, this building has never flooded in 30 years, and I believe them. The city has been piling up dirt and packing it into dikes on the river-side of the bluff, and we have a smaller dike on one end of the building property which forms what might become a pool an inch or so deep if the river rises another two+ feet. Being on the second floor, I have no fear for our things.
Our garage is on the lake-side end of the parking lot, but we don't keep anything but my bicycle and my car in there, so we can bring the bike up to the apartment, and the car we can park on the street, which runs down the center of the peninsula and will thus be highly unlikely to become damp.
We have a pair of friends in town who are willing to let us crash at their place with the kitten for a while, if things get bad enough that we are forced to evacuate. Otherwise, we could take ourselves and the kitten out of town, down to his parents' home south of the Cities, but that would take a huge chunk out of our finances. Both getting down there, food while we're going, and that we'd miss out on the one money-making scenario we have pinned down for the month, so... We're extra grateful that A) it doesn't look like we're going to be in much trouble flood-wise, and B) we have such awesome friends who are so willing to inconvenience themselves in order to help.
At some point in the future perhaps I will manage pictures of water.
As many of you who live in this town know, the river floods about this time every year. Usually this is not a big deal, and it's not that big a deal this time, except that now my apartment building is on the spit of land that essentially becomes a spindly peninsula every spring. River on one side, park that angles down nearly to the river on the other which, by not having a dike between it and the river, becomes a rather spectacular place for fish to swim through the tennis court fence and around the trunks of many trees until the water subsides. Now, granted, according to the building management company, this building has never flooded in 30 years, and I believe them. The city has been piling up dirt and packing it into dikes on the river-side of the bluff, and we have a smaller dike on one end of the building property which forms what might become a pool an inch or so deep if the river rises another two+ feet. Being on the second floor, I have no fear for our things.
Our garage is on the lake-side end of the parking lot, but we don't keep anything but my bicycle and my car in there, so we can bring the bike up to the apartment, and the car we can park on the street, which runs down the center of the peninsula and will thus be highly unlikely to become damp.
We have a pair of friends in town who are willing to let us crash at their place with the kitten for a while, if things get bad enough that we are forced to evacuate. Otherwise, we could take ourselves and the kitten out of town, down to his parents' home south of the Cities, but that would take a huge chunk out of our finances. Both getting down there, food while we're going, and that we'd miss out on the one money-making scenario we have pinned down for the month, so... We're extra grateful that A) it doesn't look like we're going to be in much trouble flood-wise, and B) we have such awesome friends who are so willing to inconvenience themselves in order to help.
At some point in the future perhaps I will manage pictures of water.