Wordful Wednesday – Oh, the Rain!
January 7th, 2009 . by Joyce
Wordful Wednesday is hosted by Angie of SevEn cLoWn CirCuS
Moisture-laden clouds
Grey and misty overhead
The rain streaks windows.
Sky streams soak the sponge-like land.
The river has topped its banks.
The rain falls, snow melts.
Where slush reigned, puddles abound,
Water-soaked terrain.
Instead of white snow blanket,
Winter rains return.
Exciting weather
First, unusually cold
Beautiful, bright snow.
Bad for drivers, good for sleds.
Now, too much rain and flooding.
This is our neighbor’s house at the corner of Alm Road and Gillies Road.
At the bottom of our road, looking south.
Gillies road looking south.
Gillies Road, looking north.
This shot is of the Sumas River (near Alm and Gillies Roads) which is really nothing more than a creek most of the time.
Guess who got stuck while taking these photos? My husband, the intrepid adventurer, and his noble sidekick with a camera, our daughter Laura!
Never fear! Our kind neighbor took a break from bailing out his flooding basement to rescue Rick and Laura from the muck.
Flooded Riverside Park near the Nooksack River.
Here is Rick by the flooded Nooksack River, pointing out to Laura that the water is still rising. These photos were taken at about 3:30pm today.
I was just going to ask you on FB how you are doing. WOW! I’ll pray for you and your neighbors, as well as my home and our neighbors. This really has been crazy weather this winter!
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Thank you so much for visiting my blog. Enjoyed seeing your photos. We’ve had stuff like that in Florida during tropical storms etc and it can be a mess! Hope you get things back to normal soon.
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I’m so sorry for what you’re going through. I hope it gets better soon. It’s surreal what a mild winter we’re having and the rest of the country is going through so much.
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I’m so thankful that the Lord said He’d never flood the earth again. I just hope that no one we know has any really bad flood damage. And that people are not driving thru still water. You never know what is or isn’t underneath that water!!
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Oh my goodness! I thought about you this morning while watching the news and said a prayer that you’ll be okay … and I certainly hope you are. What a LOT of water!!!
Hugs and blessings,
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oh, thanks for the photos!!! My mom said there was flooding and I remember from when I lived there. My parents live off the guide, near the nooksack river….. it must be just raging now!!
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Oh my goodness. After I read your poem I was expecting a few bad weather pictures….not this. That is a lot of flooding. I love the homemade sign that says, “don’t try”. How are you doing? How has the flooding changed your everyday life?
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