Spare a thought for Gary who wrote me this evening as he sits in the storm passing through central New York today:
We went for a ride to do errands and had lunch at the parents. At that point, the river had covered their drive a bit. Later, as we tried to get home, the roads west were all washed out! After a lot of driving around we went back to the parents. We are there now. Our car is parked as high as possible, and I wonder if it will be there tomorrow? I kid you not - the river is expected to crest 11 feet over by tomorrow! Our dogs are with us, and the neighbors went into our house and the cats and house are fine. The creek, behind our house, is OK but it's already flooding down in Ithaca. Gaaaah...You know when a potter says "Gaaah" he is worried. We hope all is well.
Comments
gr - June 28, 2006 5:56 am
Kinda funny, maybe not really: watching the early news 50 miles from home, surrounded by floods, and ch 10 Syracuse shows flooding on rte 366, less than half a mile from our house. Not much I can do from here. The house is up pretty high, but what a crazy storm, and I wish I hadn't seen that.
Alan - June 28, 2006 7:09 am
Here is that link to the Channel 10 TV news story on the flooding of the mighty Otselic.
cm - June 28, 2006 8:35 am
As Alan said, we hope all is well.
gr - June 28, 2006 11:09 am
Things are looking pretty good. Car OK, house and rest OK, although many others not so lucky. What do you when you have a blizzard and can't go anywhere? Make snowmen and drink hot cocoa. I am doing the summer flood equivalent: swimming! Making lemonade out of lemons....
Mike - June 28, 2006 11:12 am
So long as the piggies are ok.
Mike - June 28, 2006 11:12 am
BTW, do you have a catalog? Do you ship to exotic destinations like Nova Scotia? Email me.
Alan - June 28, 2006 11:13 am
I tell ya, facilitating piggie sales via GX40 is something we should consider.
cm - June 28, 2006 1:59 pm
I'm surprised it hasn't been considered already. Glad to hear everything's ok, gr, hope you're having ice cream with that lemonade.
gr - June 28, 2006 3:13 pm
Ya'll are just so nice. cm, there are worse things than sitting at your mom's house, swimming and having ice cream, and a fresh baked chocolate cake.
Just back home. The news says this is a 300 year storm, and we were caught safely in the middle. The counties from Syracuse to Binghamton are CLOSED but we waded out with our 2 Labradors to the highway then drove out anyway, on high roads. Everything east of int. 81 is bad, but we got to Cortland and home just fine. Behind us, Fall Creek is still 50-70 yards away, our cats are fine, our house is dry and fine, and my neighbor covered up all my half dried cups and bowls, so that nothing was overdried. Whew! Our other neighbors have a swimming pool in their basement, pumps going, and I just saw a chipmunk run in the window, so now they have a swimming pool and chipmunks. Binghamton is in very bad shape, the Susquehanna river is huge and it sounds like it is about to do a Katrina. I tell ya, if you have good fortune, as we have had, be grateful, and maybe try to help your neighbors get the chipmunks out. Or something more helpful, like find some beers and tofu pups.
Mike and cm, you are fantastic to ask: I had 2 web pages but pulled them because of overseas companies ripping off designs. I would be happy to send pix, though.
gr - June 28, 2006 3:16 pm
oooph. lookit the news in Binghamton
http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs.dll/frontpage
cm - June 28, 2006 3:53 pm
Was the chipmunk wearing a Speedo?
gr - June 28, 2006 6:12 pm
Chipmunks are really cute, cm, and this one was n-a-k-e-d.
Skinny dipping, you might say.
Time for a healthful adult beverage.
mr, wife of you-know-who - June 28, 2006 7:10 pm
Not sure I'd like to see a chipmunk in a speedo, it would make me say "There goes the neighborhood." Our town was named after exploding stills during Prohibition. We have a reputation to uphold!