Monday, July 20th, 2009 | Posted by

Here we go again

A hard, driving thunderstorm is drenching our part of Floyd County as I write this. It’s a prolonged one that has lasted more than 30 minutes, dropping bucketloads of water while thunder rattles the windows and lightning snakes across the darkness.

Figures. We just finished repairing our driveway as darkness approached Sunday evening, ironing out the last of the gullies created by the deluge that struck Friday morning. I dread daylight today because I know the driveway will be destroyed again. The grading from Sunday needed time to set. Didn’t happen.

We’re back in the pattern of earlier this Spring. The forecast calls for thunderstorms on nine of the next 10 days. The grass in our lawn will reach wilderness-like heights because there won’t be time to mow between downpours and most of our driveway will end up in Franklin County.

(UPDATE: 8:00 a.m. Daylight confirmed my worst fears. The storm washed away all the work from this weekend and it’s continuing to rain. Will this madness never end?)

1 Response for “Here we go again”

  1. Amy Westmoreland says:
    July 20, 2009 at 12:18 pm

    Poor Doug you just can’t win for losing. I wish we could get just some of the rain that Floyd has been getting. Up here in NOVA land (just west of Gainesville VA) the rain
    keeps splitting and goes around us, my yard is for the
    most part brown and crunchy now. I know paving is
    horribly expensive due to the price of crude oil, but have you thought about concrete? But than again when could you do it if it keeps raining? I know you have ditches along the sides but if I remember correctly
    they were not very deep.Maybe digging them deeper and
    lining them with large rock like they do on the parkway
    might help.Lord knows the one thing Floyd has in abundance
    is rock.
    Good luck and stay dry.

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