Glub!
Last time I looked out the kitchen window, the garden is still there; I just don’t feel like schlupping through the mud to get there from here. We’ve been getting anywhere from a half inch to nearly 2 inches of rain a day most days this past week or so, including 1.75 yesterday, and more earlier today; and again now. One of the new gooseberries drowned. A few days go, I was able to check, and the potatoes were about ready for their first hilling, but that’s not going to happen for awhile.
A close lightning strike took out my modem & phones (but not the phone line) today. Joys of a co-op, I called it in around 4 PM, and techs on their way home from the office stopped & replaced the modem less than an hour later.
70 miles to our SW, a WY town and surrounding area got 6-11” the night before last; they’re getting more tonight. It’s washed out a 8 or 10 miles of tracks and a couple of bridges of the BNSF/UP mainline double tracks for the Powder River coal trains; as well as taken out all the highways in the area. U.S. 18, 20, & 85 are all closed in east-central WY; the upside is I don’t have truck traffic to fight when I go to work
The same night, a 40 mile long swathe 15 miles south of us got up to tennis ball sized hail. We were lucky, as it had been bearing NE, straight at us for over 70 miles, but the hills & Cheyenne River hooked it due east.
Maybe you could just stack up some straw instead of hilling? You dodged a bullet with the hail that’s for sure. Sounds like ya’ll could use a little break in the rain and some sunshine to dry it up a bit.
Hope all settles down soon. Stay safe.