Thinking about building an ark

I've been slacking on the blogging, sorry! New job, small family emergency, and dealing with flood waters will wreak havoc with one's online time.

A couple of weeks ago we got four non-stop days of rain. Non-stop. According to this article about the wet March experienced all over New England, Boston in particular had 14" of rain this month alone, breaking the previous record of 10". This all happened in just two storms. If it had been snow, we would have had over six feet. Our basement, which had never had water in it in the 6+ years the house has been here, developed maybe a 1/4" pool or so. I never actually saw it myself because Willy took care of wet vac'ing it while I was at work. Poor guy, dragging 5 gallons of water at a time up the stairs.

We had to get rid of a bunch of wet boxes, but otherwise we had it easy. Lots of people had several inches of flooding, including one of my co-workers who had a finished basement with desktop computers sitting on the floor, all sitting in 3" of water.

The rain stopped for a few days, then started all over again yesterday. The images on the news are crazy. Parts of the Charles River, which I've never seen be anything but smooth and flat, are raging (there's no other word for it), and in Fall River (one of our towns) it looks like an earthquake hit one of the streets because all the water caused it to collapse, and raw sewage is running into some people's houses :(

And the craziest part? It's supposed to finally stop raining sometime tomorrow, and on Thursday it will be in the 70s and over the weekend they just upped the forecast to 80s! Oh, and two Saturdays ago we had a 70+ degree day, followed the next Saturday by snow.

Love New England.