It's pouring downright now, the first of 3 or 4 days so they are saying. Brunel and Lightning are most unhappy. They can't run in and out, or play outside, and when they do have to go out, they come back in soaking wet. Lightning doesn't even venture out in it sometimes, just stays on the porch looking sad, so I expect some accidents indoors today. Thankfully, my floors are tile and easily mopped and disinfected.
We've barely recovered from last week's deluges, and the ground hadn't really dried out properly, so my front yard is a quagmire, and the back field is beginning to show mini lakes on the plateaus. I feel badly for the outdoor animals, and the homeless.
There's even some ponding on roads, and I daresay, by this evening, there will be some flooded out areas. One of the bad things about wet ground, here in SC, is that the trees don't have long roots, so heavy rainfall usually results in quite a few fallen trees. It's dangerous driving on the back roads because you never know when a tree will topple. We get a lot of blocked roads, but sometimes worse than that, wirth trees falling on houses or even on vehicles.
We had an old oak tree out front for many years, but over the last 5 or 6, the upper limbs died and would drop off any time it got windy. This last Autumn, we had somebody come and cut it down, and then had the stump ground down. Better safe than sorry, I couldn't risk it coming down on the house or car.
One of the nice "after the rain" things we like to do, is go down to Cedar Falls in Fork Shoals, to see how the rain has affected the river. It gets pretty awesome, crashing over the boulders, loud and noisy, and about 20 feet higher than normal, sometimes even cresting the banks above the "beach" area. Makes you realise how small we are in the world of nature, watching the torrent.
Thankfully, I have no plans to go anywhere today (or the next few days!).
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