...The Storm

Oh yes, the calm is gone and the storm hit, but like all good storms, not where we were expecting. While we were watching the skies, anticipating a hurricane, the storm snuck up on us through the floor in the basement. Well, actually it was creeping in from the field next door, but it appeared in our house as a basement flood.

Which really sucks. The past few days have been spent vacuuming up water, hauling out water-soaked boxes and water soaked carpet, disagreeing with the farmer of the field about whose fault this was and waiting for the city to figure out which system failed, our house drain or the irrigation ditch. It is a very long boring and devastating story and I don't want to talk about it anymore.