The Rankin Zoo 

We’ve had a little bit of rain recently. More like a lot of rain. An insane amount of rain. I don’t remember when it all started, maybe last Saturday night? I guess we had some good storms even before that - like Thursday night. Well, it was Sunday night when all the fun started.

We were trying to watch a movie and a big storm was rolling in. At one point we paused the movie to go look out front. Well, the street was a river. The front yard was a lake. It was crazy. I’d say the river/street was 6-8 inches deep in the middle. I don’t think I would have felt comfortable walking across it because it was moving so fast. Cars parked on the street almost definitely suffered flooding damage.

Then we discovered the waterfall into our basement. We’ve had water seep into the basement before, which is why we try to keep everything off the floor a little bit. But this was a different problem and the waterfall was cascading down some shelves over boxes (mostly cardboard) of old photo equipment. We spent a few frantic minutes trying to move things out of the way and then some waterlogged time digging some canals in our front yard in an attempt to fix the problem. I haven’t assessed the damage yet so I’m not sure what we lost - but hopefully it’s not too bad. Mostly old stuff that probably didn’t work anyway.

It rained most of the day Monday. In the afternoon we had a mini river/street situation, and you can see some pictures here: Rain. Later Monday evening we had the full-blown river/street problem again but the temporary fix seemed to spare the basement this time around.

We had more rain during the day on Tuesday and a decent amount last night. Right now, it’s sunny! It’s supposed to be hot and humid but at least it’s not pouring rain.