It’s been raining quite heavily in most parts of the country, including mine, and the ground is finally saturated, meaning there is no place for the water to go anymore but into your cellar. We were concerned last night, Gamma most of all, she has a phobia of flooding (when she was younger and telling past-life stories, most of her deaths involved drowning) and couldn’t get to sleep. I read a book, and when I wanted to go to bed saw that Alpha, Beta and Gamma were all sleeping in the big bed, so I went to Beta’s bed and read another 30 minutes before finally going to sleep around 1. Got up at 5.30 and checked water levels in the street etc. Things had, in my area, calmed down overnight and water had never actually come into our cellar, and I never needed to use the pump I bought several years ago when water did actually flood our basement and I swore I’d get a good pump.
It is interesting how a catastrophe brings out the best in people. Yesterday, for example, when the rain was the heaviest, just streaming down, and our back yard was mostly submerged, totally saturated with about an inch of water on top and water was beginning to seep into the drain in front of the cellar door, I noticed our neighbor bailing water out of in front of her door and throwing it into our backyard. Alpha and I went to the fence and asked her wtf she was doing, and to please not be putting even more water onto our property, where it would seep into our house, but into the street where it could drain away.
“I’ve had to buy new furniture three times,” she explained. Good for you, I thought. “Listen,” I said, “I have a pump. You’re welcome to use that until my cellar starts flooding and I need it.” She said, in an irritated tone, no, another neighbor was bringing over a pump. I told her to be sure and let me know if she changed her mind.
I was thinking about you when I saw film on the news of Austrians struggling with water… I hope you’ve completely avoided any mess.
the only water in our cellar so far happened last night when i was trying to get the pump ready, a heavy stainless steel contraption connected to a large heavy hose. the hose still had a little water in it from when i pumped out the wading pool a couple weeks ago, and when i tried to untangle and straighten out the hose the water drained out onto my socks. right now, in our general area, it is still cloudy but the skies seem to be a brighter grey than yesterday. when i was a kid, i envied people who had interesting things like snow to shovel in the winter, and floods and big storms. now i don’t.
It’s caused an echo, too.
And I’m the only one who’ll ever know what the blurred text actually says.
Cool new look, Mig. Can I trade you for some of that rain?
where’s the link to the bug schwag? i find i can no longer get along without a jumbo bug mug.
i’ll start working on the merchandise page, like, tomorrow (tuesday) i hope. must go fight floodwaters right now.
Is this the same neighbor that killed your tree?
That neighbor of yours needs to be pelted. Argh.
I don’t know you at all, but I worry about you and your family, and I hope that you are all ok. I’m a buddhist, so I will just think about Buddha scooping you out of the water when it gets too deep.
I like the new layout. I hope the worst is over for you (and that your neighbor has a nasty sewer backup).
I love it! Very cool new look-
yeah,it’s the tree neighbor. thanks everyone. so far our town has been spared any flooding, except for a few cellars (ours is still dry).
Surely thanks to Buddha?
Wow! The Daily Mig – it looks great!
dig the layout, migster. of course, with the bug all up front like this, this will mean more frequent updates of buglife will be necessary :P
was thinking of you and your fam this weekend when I saw all the flooding info on the news. I’ll keep sending happy, dry thoughts your way.
ack, hope you’re still staying dry.
working on new bugs. in the meantime, go buy bug merchandise. floodwaters are beginning to recede, but a road i normally take to work was closed today. but our house stayed dry.