Time to Order An Ark?

Last Thursday night the area was hit by a major rain storm:  5" of rain overnight! The west side of the village (from Main St to  the high school and Walmart) was covered by the the muddy runoff of Bellinger Brook (usually just a trickle of water that runs thru Brookwood Park). The parking lot for Midtown Apartments had only the roofs of the cars parked there above water! (This photo was even shown on NBC Nightly News! Wish I had taken it!)  The Stewart's on the corner of Bellinger and Mohawk Sts had 2-3' of water inside. Most of the cellars on the west side of the village were full of muddy water, with mud covering sidewalks, curbs and roadways buckling and braking them.  I saw a tool shed backwards against a house on Caroline St having been moved there from several houses away by the raging water; lawns and gardens covered by mud with several gardens on Steele St totally destroyed.  Sunday one still had 5"of water on it while the others looked like weird sculpture with the plants (tomatoes, peppers, garlic) covered by dry mud!  The village scattered large dumpsters around for residents to use and when they were full  large piles of soaked stuff lined the streets. Pickers and junkers were all over making the mess worse by pawing thru the piles scattering things all over.  National Grid was busy trying to reconnect electric and gas lines as they were inspected. And as the temperatures rose the mud turned into dust and the village was covered by clouds of it that were diminished when only when it rained which it's been doing off and on all weekend. Tonight after supper we had an especially heavy downpour.  Now all those streets are full of water again and the flood warning is for the east side of the village where the West Canada Creek is already over flood stage!  Herkimer wasn't the only village hit, Little Falls had underground streams break thru into stores on Main St and landslides block roads, Mohawk had a large sinkhole develop on Warren Road that swallowed several cars and was without electricity for 3 days with their power station underwater. Living out here in the little house in the little woods we were spared typical flood damage.  The driveway and lawn have several small lakes but they should dry up when it stops raining and slugs are feasting on the garden. I think I can cope with that better than water lapping at by cellar door.

OTN:  You'd think with all this rain I'd have gotten a lot of knitting done. I did finish 2 baseball caps and a 3-6 month sweater set that I sent to the shop yesterday. And today I started a size 2 boys sweater for a special order.  Hope to finish that this week.