Rain, Rain Gone Away
Hi, it's me again.
After numerous days of heavy rainfall & record flooding, the sun decided to come out today. It makes little difference to me, though. It was very interesting to see all the flooding, I have to say. The pier at the lake was completely submerged, & the spillway was a river almost 10 feet deep. At one point, the lake was SO overflowing, it briefly blocked the road outside my house, but not for long. A major thoroughfare very nearby was washed away; the road just crumbled. A few times, I had to turn my car around to take a different route due to closed & flooded roads. Exciting times, indeed!
The flood that this one blew out of the record books was in the early 1980's before I actually lived here; an elephant & goat at the city zoo drowned. There are (or were) plaques on trees around town that showed the water level, which in some places was as high as 8 feet. I was very surprised to learn that this storm was even worse than that one. This time, no animals were harmed at the zoo, thank goodness.
I do remember vaguely the previous flood; I lived in Ocean Springs, down on the Gulf Coast, & my brother's school bus could not get to our apartment due to rising water. He had to walk home in the torrential downpour, poor fella. I was not old enough for school, but I distinctly remember watching Inspector Gadget by myself, because my brother hadn't made it home yet. That show was a treat for us everyday when he got home. Funny, the things one remembers.