Floods, Family, and Flowers (of course!)
FIVE FEET HIGH AND RISING "How high's the water, mama? Five feet high and rising." Those are some of the lyrics from an old Johnny Cash song I can remember hearing when I was a little girl, probably on the country music radio station my mom and grandma used to listen to back then. Does anyone else remember that one? This is the song if you'd like to hear it. This song has been playing in my head this week because of the weather we've been having. Although we finally had a dry day today, most of the rest of the week was filled with one torrential rainstorm after another. Yesterday, it came down so hard and so fast that there was much flooding in our corner of the state. Many streets and basements were flooded here in town. There was even some flooding in the library. Luckily it was confined to non-public areas, but it was still significant. Work had to come to a standstill for some of the staff so that they could deal with the rising water...