Thursday, November 12, 2009

Thursday, November 12

Tuesday was kind of rough in our little corner of the world. While tropical storm Ida was making landfall on the Gulf Coast, her outer bands were visiting us. We had rain all day Tuesday and Tuesday night. In the early morning hours Wednesday we began to get wind driven rains with gusts up to 45 mph. At 8:30 Wednesday morning our rain gauge had registered 6.5 inches in the preceding 24 hours. I've weathered a few hurricanes, but sure didn't expect the weather we experienced here in Ninety Six, SC.

Anyway, yesterday we awoke to a soggy bedroom carpet. That's not so good when your bedroom is on the 2nd floor. Then we noted some wet spots on the ceilings in the living room and our garage. UhOh.........Nationwide, please be on our side!!!

Called the claims center and yesterday received our first visit from a "remediation specialist."
Don't worry, says he........it'll all look like new when we get finished. OK, now we get to today. They're not finished with the remediation (Drying Out) and we've been advised we will be running dehumidifiers and fans until Monday.

Here's a few pictures I took for our 12 of 12:



8:15 a.m. The infamous rain guage, yesterday morning it registered 6 1/2 inches


8:20 a.m. All the bedroom furniture is pulled to the center of our bedroom...we're sleeping in the guestroom now

8:25 a.m. If we hadn't moved furniture, this is where the bed sits in our bedroom. The remediation folks have this monster dehumidifier running. 8:30 a.m. This is the ceiling in the garage. The insulation was soaked and we have fans and dehumidifiers running here, also.

8:55 a.m. Life goes on, our flowers did enjoy the rain, and some weathered the wind, too.
This is one of our Knockout Roses.

8:57 a.m. Our Brown-eyed Suzie vine is still putting out many flowers.
9:00 a.m. Ahh Mums. Diane counts on them for our front porch steps every fall.
4:40 p.m. Last year I showed a picture of our neighbors old barn. That came down last week and this is replacing it. I'm gonna miss the old one because it was the backdrop for some really neat pictures.

4:45 p.m. 6 1/2 inches of rain raised our lake over two feet. (Takes a lot of water to raise a lake 32 miles long and 1 mile wide two feet.) It's now raised enough that they are opening the flood gates at the dam tonight.

4:50 p.m. We're headed to the Chamber of Commerce for a meeting. This is at the entrance of our sub-division.

5:10 a.m. A mural painted on the entrance wall of our Chamber.

7:35 p.m. Back home and Curious Annie Kitty is here to greet us.
Now, y'all go visit some of our fellow 12 of 12 sharers.







4 comments:

TJ said...

Sorry to hear about all the trouble with the rain. but as you say it did help the flowers which made for some nice photos. I also love the last one with the cat. Thanks for sharing...

Bec said...

I hope your house dries soon! Lovely flowers, though!

JCB said...

Water is so powerful. It's humbling to realize! I love the flowers.

Sue Reynolds said...

Well sure glad you survived the downpour. The kitty sure stayed dry! good luck with the remediation-hugs Sue