Rolling Wednesday...

[grammynmaggie]

Good morning everyone hot and muggy as usual here in central Florida's East Coast getting ready to move on out in about an hour taking a road trip meeting up with Margie... I'm hoping we can find some AC to do some things without melting.... heading to the West Coast part of Florida everybody have a good one & B safe ...donna

[Birdie]

Morning Donna, I hope you have a safe journey to that west coast! Have fun with Margie and you "girls" try to stay cool. I am OTR this morning headed towards Missouri. Meeting with some friends later this week near Branson. Weather seems to be moderating here a bit. Still humid but temps have dropped a few degrees. Hoping for cloudy skies on the drive. If you are on the road out there be safe. Have fun whereever you are.

[Othersharon]

Good morning. Looks like another hot, muggy day here. We had a big storm blast through here last night, power went out for a couple hours. It was really weird when it started to go, lights actually flickered for a little bit before it finally went out completely. It was almost like it was at half power or something. Thank goodness for the EMS on Lola. Good money spent!

Donna, hope you have a good trip and enjoy visiting with Margie. Sounds like you're enjoying your new RT. Liz, was happy to see your blog. Thanks for sharing. As usual, some beautiful pictures.

I'm heading out later to the fairgrounds to help my friend set up the tent. My son and they took things over Monday and put the bigger things in the tent so today is all about getting it set up and ready to move in for the next 10 days. It's a great place to just sit back and people watch! The last big harrah before school starts and fall sets in.

Coffee is gone so I need to go upstairs, get dressed and get moving! Travel safe and hope wherever you are hope you have a good day.

[Colliemom]

Morning gals,

Have fun on your trip to the "west coast" Donna. I can tell you are enjoying your RT too. O'Sharon, must have been quite some storm you had. We are getting some serious much needed rain here this morning too. Coming down pretty steady We are not quite 3 inches below normal for the summer, so can use all we get. This will be a good soaker.

Nothing much on agenda today other than getting new hearing aid. Then need to get the flea/tick meds for the dogs and maybe stop by Home Depot and get a sample jar of paint for those window boxes out front. Having trouble getting just the right shade of gray. Put he shutters back on yesterday and the black looks great, but the window boxes are looking a little taupe rather than gray, so back to the drawing board. Would like to find the right shade as am hoping i can use it on the porch as well. I did get the spare bedroom all neat and bed made yesterday as well as hanging up picture and quilted wall hanging. Washed down the walls and shelves in the closet and put a few things in there. So boxes are all out of there now. Only this little office room left to get in order.

Looking into maybe joining Eileen and Cheryl over in WI in early Oct. Will be a one night stay along the way for me from here, but the route over is the same one that I took when I went west last summer. J.W. Wells State Park, which i have never stayed at, is just north of Menominee and is wide open for reservations. looking at some sites the overlook Green Bay for a night or maybe two. Will see. Right now I need to start getting the TT ready to roll out in two weeks for the U.P.

Y'all have a nice day today. Keep dry. Martha, hope you are still okay down there. Seems like the rains just don't want to end for gulf coast.

[havingfunnow]

Pay day! Grocery shopping! Yay!

[avalen]

good morning
feeling a little numb today, actually feeling a little sadness for daughter as she lost her best friend to cancer
yesterday. The saddest part is it could have been prevented but the friend refused to have surgery cause it
meant a colostomy bag. This cancer thing just sucks. As we get older and older and our friends die we tend
to know its going to happen. However daughter is young, her friend was young and it just shouldn't have
happened.
Going to Superior this evening after work, day off tomorrow.
Ya'll enjoy your day and be safe.

[Acadianmom]

I made it to town this afternoon. There was water over the road in 2 places but not too deep. I only saw a few places with carpet by the road but I didn't go where I knew the roads had been closed.

Last night about 9:30 we had a storm come through with lightening, thunder and heavy rain for about an hour. We got 2 1/2 inches of rain in that hour. North of us there were places that got up to 7 inches. Places that hadn't flooded did after that much rain. I got a flood watch alert on my phone on the way to town. It looks like it could rain but it never did. The radar shows rain all over Louisiana again. Is it ever going to move off. Louisiana is drowning and California is burning.

Martha

[BarbaraRose]

...I only saw a few places with carpet by the road...

OK Martha, we need an explanation for this!

[longdog2]

Barbie.....the carpet would be by the road because the houses were flooded in the disaster going on in Louisiana.

[BarbaraRose]

Oh, OK. I got it now. Thought it was a typo or auto correct .

[Acadianmom]

The people that get water in their house have to tear out the wet carpet, appliances that got wet, furniture that can't be saved and the sheet rock up to just above the water line. It's pretty easy to tell which houses flooded by the mountain of trash by the road. Thank god the parish will pick up all that stuff but it's going to take a while. The state, towns and parishes were facing major deficits before this so hope they can keep doing this.

Martha

[MandysMom]

I remember when our city had floods in 1986. I had been at work all night at the hospital. I had no idea how or where flooding had been and in the morning I decided to drive by our house under construction. It baffled me as I drove down the street leading to our neighborhood why there were so many people having carpet removed. It was later when actually talking to people that I found out what happened to the houses just blocks from where I had been working. It was a lower area with two creeks and houses had up to 6 ft of water where at the hospital and across less than half mile the other side at our new home, it was higher and no flooding at all. They got it all fixed up then again in 92 it happened again,and to the same houses!
Velda

[Acadianmom]

Velda, this flooding is not like we are use to. We usually flood from hurricanes coming from the South. Houses that have never flooded have flooded this time and whole subdivisions. It just depended on where there were low lands that would hold water and where water was backing up from rivers and bayous. A big area got 24 inches of rain in about 48 hours. It's a good thing we didn't have time to evacuate because the places we would have gone flooded and we wouldn't have been able to get back to our house. When our house flooded for Hurricane Rita they changed the elevation requirements here so we built an 11' foot dirt hill and put our modular house 3 foot above the hill. I just shake my head when I see people building houses where they just put them flat on the ground. I don't care what the elevation is I would raise the house at least 3 feet.

Martha

[MandysMom]

Martha you might be surprised to hear that it only took 9 inches of rain in 3 days, much of it on one day to put those Houses 6 ft deep in water! And it was called a hundred year flood. Hasn't even come close since '92!
Velda