Weather Woes

We had 3 days of almost non-stop rain, so when it finally stopped, water started gushing up out of the neighbor's yard and running down into the street. Then it started to snow. So this morning D.D. and I got to walk to school in the snow while L.H. shoveled the sidewalk. It's our week in the house for stair-cleaning and sidewalk-shoveling.

Water is still running down the neighbor's yard. I'll be surprised if their apple tree makes it after that spring erupted right next to its roots.

It was actually quite lovely during the 5 minutes it took me to write the above: blue skies dotted with fluffy white clouds, snow-dusted trees and houses below. But a thick blanket of dirty gray clouds has just rolled over the top of our valley, sealing us off from the weak winter sunlight. Bah!

On the way into town, I saw that the river was up. On the upstream side of the locks (the river flows westerly), the water was pushing at the buoys so hard they looked like they were being towed through the water. On the other side, the water already covered the concrete divider thingy that directs ships into the locks. It wasn't over the banks, though.

When I came home this evening, the water had made it over the north bank. It rained in town, and snowed at home, but it was too warm to stick, and everything is melted now. Poor L.H., having to get up and shovel in the dark, when he just had to wait... uh, most of the day for it to melt.