Pouring Rain and Flooding

This has been a very strange winter. After a little bit of snow the other night, last night the temperature warmed up into the 40s and we had driving, pouring rain all night long. The rain was coming down so hard that it kept me awake most of the night. 

Why would rain keep me awake? The back section of our house is covered with a tarp because the roof needs to be replaced... roofing joists as well as the roofing material. It is in bad shape requiring demolition and rebuilding. My health has not really been well enough to tackle this enormous project so we are just waiting for my health and the weather to be in sync so we can repair/rebuild this section of the house. In the meantime, whenever we have heavy rain or heavy snow, I am constantly expecting the worst.

As Sheila drove to work this morning, she noticed flooding in all the fields. Actually, the National Weather Service had issued a flash flood warning and the flood stage was in the "Action" stage. Common sense tells me that this is the stage when evacuation should occur. Unfortunately, nobody seemed to care much and it was business as usual. I guess it has been long enough since all of downtown Waterbury was destroyed by flooding... that was only four years ago so I suppose that means people become lackadaisical, neglectful and careless within four years after a catastrophic event.

Anyway, it has been wet here!

The Worcester Range... viewed from our living room window... obscured in clouds...