Anybody got an Ark??

6 1/2 inches of rain yesterday - more to come today (the news just said we got 10 inches and the worst for us hasn't hit yet). In some parts of Nashville they have gotten 15 inches in the past 48 hours. Yep - we are pretty much in a giant lake around here. The roads around our house are pretty much impassable. I-40 and I-24 are flooded as is a large part of downtown Nashville. Except for a couple of soggy patches in our basement we have been spared, luckily - for once I am thankful to live on a hill. The only major flooding we got was to my vegetable garden.

Here is Raif out in it yesterday trying to save my plants. He managed to make a trough and divert it around the garden so hopefully we managed to save most of the veggies.

Not the best picture as it was taken from inside the house but you can sort of see the river of water streaming out of the bottom of the garden.


The gutter at the front of the house. Most of the flowers were submerged at some point yesterday. A couple of my smaller flowers have been completely covered by mulch so I am going to have to try to dig them out if and when the rain ever stops.

The rains lifted and moved a lot of the mulch out of the gardens and onto our walk and front yard.

But at least the kids are having fun - watching the storm from the safety of the front porch.