From flooding earlier this year (click on image to enlarge):


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Too darn much of it.  Over 10 inches of it.  Enough to send me off to the rental joint for a sump-type pump for the back yard, and a turbo fan to dry out the pad and the carpet in the library downstairs, and for Susan to dig a canal in the back yard to drain the sucker and decrease the water pressures.  I still hear the sump inside running on and ( Read more... )

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This has been a terrible week, and I’m not in the greatest of moods (and exhausted to boot) so I’ll cut here and save y’all from the long version ‘less’n you’re curious.

NOTE: a lot of posts that I do that aren’t ‘timely’ are done when I have the time in fits and spurts, saved in the draft files and finally set to be published at intervals.  That ( Read more... )

From 1978 to 1983, I was living with my Mom in Findlay, Ohio, about an hour’s drive south of Toledo and not far from the law school that I attended during that time. She lived there until she died in 2003, and I’ve been there many, many times. Still have friends there. (Waves at a Kat!)

The recent stories about flooding in Ohio caught my eye, ( Read more... )

Sorry about being out of touch; my internet and phone were cut off for a while, and it’s been incredibly disheartening to deal with the messes from the weekend flood in our basement.

Wednesday morning was spent on the phone again, chasing after people. I arranged for a temporary storage unit to be brought to the house, much as we’d had before, but ( Read more... )