When It Rains, It Pours!

That number in the bottom right corner? 5.46?  That's the rate of how much rain was falling. 
5.46 inches per hour.
And it continued for about 90 minutes giving us a total event measurement of just under 6'' of rain fall in a very short amount of time.
It was completely insane.
It broke loose when i was driving home from the inn after welcoming the Quilters of the Night and seeing most of them settled in for retreat.
By the time I reached Grassy Creek rd - the creek was starting to look more like a river and rain was falling so hard that I could barely see in front of me even with the windshield wipers on turbo.
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This was just nuts.
And the other thing - Hubster Dave was out playing bean bag games (my name for Corn Hole Night) with his buddies - and wouldn't be back until later.
When he came home, it wasn't in the car - he came huffing and puffing up our 1/4 mile steep drive with a flashlight telling me the road had been washed out in several places and that the end of our drive was impassable.  Sheesh.
I had no idea how bad it was until we got out this morning:
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This is absolutely nuts.
The road closure signs are down by the big washout down toward hwy 16 (The more direct way to the inn) so we'll be going up and over and around to get me there this morning.
It was a rough night of sleep - but all in all we've got it good.  
Our neighbors? Some of them are trapped and can't cross their driveways because they are washed away, and they don't have a car on the other side like we do.
The road crews are already out there working.
It's going to be interesting over the next few days to see how we can make things better for everyone.

RZR at the bottom of our washed out drive.
Dave has his tractor ready to start fixing the end of our drive and seeing what he can do to help neighbors.
I keep reminding myself of my favorite mantra: 
"You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
In other good news:

Quilting is happening here!
More on that later.
I feel exhausted and this day hasn't really even begun yet.

Oh, and this message came in - I didn't see it until this morning.
Evidently there is a dog that took up shelter on the porch.
He's been trying to come in the house - and he peed on a column to mark his new territory.
No one has gotten close enough to see if there is a tag.
I'm going to post to the local FB page to see if anyone is missing a dog.
Poor guy must have panicked and took shelter where he could.
And that's all I know for now.

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Take time to recharge.

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You do it for your phone - so why not for yourself?

I think I see some recharging in my near future, too.

Have a terrific Thursday -