This rain has been insane in the membrane. You’ve probably seen the pictures of what’s going on downstate, but you may not have known that New Castle County is getting pretty moist as well. This is right by my house, probably not 2 miles away. Luckily, I’m situated on relatively high ground (in contrast to the last house; the basement at that dump flooded if I peed outside), so there’s no moisture in my basement, although my Big Dig is completely enpuddled at this point.
Last night Sarah and I were coming back from Wilmington with C-beef. We like to take 141 most of the time because of the construction on 95, so we turned off of 202 and BAM suddenly we’re redirected onto Rockland Road. Which you can’t use to get back to 202 and take 95. Plus we were following two other cars that were equally as confused, but lack my stellar grasp of Delaware roadways. We had to take Rockland Road all the way out to Montchanin Road and take 141 from there. Then we tried to take Old Airport Road, as is our wont, drove through one 6″ puddle (I could see the bottom of it, so I weren’t scurred), only to find a very deep one that was actual moving water. “Hecks no,” said we, and turned around to come home on Commons Boulevard. That’s right, the same one that’s in the picture above, with water up to the roofs of compact cars. Luckily, that had apparently drained off into the marsh, so we managed to make it home without too much difficulty.
Rain, rain, go away, come back when my grass is dying.
