Tuesday October 19, 2010

Rain!

Thursday, September 30

This was the day, almost three weeks ago, when we had rain like we hadn’t seen in a long time.

The driveway below us became a small creek.

Rain came down in sheets.

Our rain gauge only goes to five inches, so we emptied it when it reached the five-inch mark. By the end of the day we had six and a half inches of rain – some other nearby areas had seven to nine inches.

This was something new for our road – a street sweeper. It cleaned off mud that was created by the rain. There was a lot of dirt on the road because the township crew had been filling in the gutters after putting down new blacktop.  

So ended our rainy day.