Flooded?

A whole HELL of a lot of flooding going on here in this state. Everything is closing, people are evacuating. Rumor is they are shutting down I-95 at 5pm.

Both locations (factory home base and remote factory) at work are dry and above water. Remote one is at the greatest risk but it is close to a tidal body of water and not likely to get flooded or incur any water damage. Big shop is a brand new building sitting on bedrock on the top of a hill. Nice and dry.

The ride in was spectacular. From the sewer water overflowing out of the manhole just across the little bridge north of Crescent Lane, or the inch of water flowing down hill edge to edge just north of that or the big vernal spring by the fuel terminal rushing across the bike path for about 50 feet there was a good bit of water.

But.

It is along a nice bit of water. That is tidal. Tidal water is awesome. I grew up on that stuff, love it. Rivers and lakes are great but they really suck right about now if you are in a flood area. The Pawtuxet river is at 16.65 ft above the normal water line (and rising). SIXTEEN FEET! that's a lot of area, and sadly a densely populated area.

Good time to own a disaster clean up company. That or a frustrating time. They all have waiting lists. Heck the Barrington Fire Department has a long wait list to come pump houses. Why? Well FDs have high volume pumps and well they can respond and remove water from the basement pretty quickly for you, but you need to have more than 2" of standing water, and right now you need to get on the list.

Also do you need some hose for your high volume temporary pump? Check your local fire station. They are forbidden to throw out old hoses (so the current rumor has it) and they can only use a hose for so long before it is deemed unfit for regular service, and they stock pile them up, and so if you are really nice to the chief you might be able to score a nice 100' of hose that rolls flat and is ready to hook up to your massive flotec pump to.

The wind on the way in wasn't that much fun. Solid blast from the east. Actually I didn't notice it much until I hit the exposed causeway. The bluff shielded enough of the wind up to that point. Definitely not rip roaring tail wind.

And that ride home last night was awesome.

Yes. I do love weather. And yes I'm getting home completely drenched, soaked through and through but loving every DAMN minute of being on the bike out there.

granted if it was 35 and raining this hard and this windy, well that might be miserable. But 45-50 like it is now? Couldn't be better. I do wish it didn't have such a disastrous impact on so many people. I hope the sump pumps can keep up with the water in my brother's basement and those hydraulic cement patches he's been stuffing the gushers with hold.

Be safe out there. Before you go driving in all this check to see where your car's air intake is. Check which side and how high up it goes. Sucking water up into an engine is the surest way to destroy and engine. not that anyone should be driving a car, everyone should be riding bikes ;) and saving the planet so these nasty weather events stop happening ;)

oh and agave is worse for you than HFCS? No way? WAY! it is bad bad bad juju. Really bad.