There are a couple of Mennonite bike shops on farms that I work with that I can hang out on for the day. I warned them that I might be there early in the morning already They're scattered all around so I have my bases covered for quiet spots. It might be fun watching the animals be confused when it gets dark during the day.
I'm going to point it towards the clearest area within 8-10 hours. I'll leave here the night before and drive overnight so I get wherever by sunrise to avoid the worst traffic and find a place to park. As long as there's cold beer and a bathroom I'm good.
My plan is to decide the day before where to end up based on the weather. I hope to leave home so I get there by about sunrise to beat the traffic and find a good place to park with easy access to cold beer and a bathroom.
The creeks and small lakes and ponds were in ok shape early this morning but now most are bursting at the seams. The amount of water coming off the hills is impressive considering I'm only at 2.5. Everything is just so saturated...
So I'm almost a half mile north of the flood watch, does that mean my basement won't be wet
No, there's not much I can do about it unless I can figure out how to dig French drains into rocky soil by hand.
Dry? Not here. I'm at ~5" for the month. My basement was a half inch deep last weekend with that nearly 2". Any time it rains more than a half inch or so the water just seeps through the walls from about 3' off the floor and up through the floor drain. The ground is still saturated, creeks are still high and most local ponds and NYC reservoirs are still totally full and the overflow dams are still running strong.
We'll be out in a few years, come and get it.
Right? I was looking at the garden area today and started cleaning up but kept sinking into mildewy ickiness. I'll probably just do hanging stuff with fresh soil this year.
As nice as these days have been my driveway is still wet and the sides are still soggy, not to the point where water comes up around your shoes when you step on it but it still squishes. Someday my neighbors will move and I can cut the thicket down so the sun and wind can get to the ground. Until then as long as this wet regime hangs around I guess I'll just watch the moss grow and crumble the terminally soggy pavement
Not at this point it isn't. All it takes is a couple of tenths for my basement walls to start seeping again. When it rains an inch or more I suck 100s of gallons out with a shop vac over the next couple of days. We usually put a car in front of the house to make it easier to deal with the driveway but I can't because the mud is tenacious and I've been stuck several times now. The backyard is spongy and the garden is too wet to plant anything. #bringbackthedrought for a month or two
The way the wind has been a steady roar for hours is kind of at odds with most of the stations around here (on WU), it seems that it should be higher than 6-9 with gusts to 13. The local mesonets are ~20/G30-35. Are most homeowner setups just too low to get decent measurements when it's like this? It sure is nice out of the wind in the sun