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Rain Over Me
April 15, 2007 | Filed Under Main | No Comments
And it keeps coming down here on the Jersey Shore. Not just raining, mind you – POURING! It has not stopped since sometime last night. I am definitely thankful it is not snow or tornados or hurricane winds or other Mother Nature destruction. Pretty awesome indeed when you think about it – I can’t remember when I last saw this much hard, sustained rain. I had a dream a few weeks back. Very strange because my dreams are never based in the real world. But I was trying to figure out where we should go – what to do with the family – when the floods came. What state was the best to drive to – where would we be safest? What car would my old dog go into? How much time did we have? Very, very weird. And here we are now – Noah knocking on the door. We went by the marina in town earlier. Luckily, there were few boats in the water. (Unluckily they were the fishing boats – party boats.) The water was up to the bottom of the docks and there was still two hours before high tide. We had to bail out the basement twice so far. I had forgotten that the amazing Shop Vac can be used for water! The problem is that, once you have filled Shop Vac, you have to do something with the water. So Kerry, Chris and I formed a bucket brigade. Fill the machine, empty the machine. Repeat. Shop Vac says it holds 14 gallons. I filled it at least five times (though my lower back says more). So I took at least 70 gallons of water out of my basement. And no – I don’t have a sump pump. Hell, my basement barely has a floor. The concrete is only half an inch thick (I swear!). I’ll probably have to do it again in the morning.
So today was my last day of vacation. Back to work. See you all in traffic…