I am smack-dab in the middle of the crazy New Hampshire flooding

[WilliamPitt]

...and I had no idea until yesterday.

I am up in New Hampshire at my mother's little log cabin. She went West to visit with friends on Wednesday, and I have been dog-sitting. From Friday to Monday, I had a dozen friends from the city up here to hang out.

So the rain came Saturday morning and just didn't stop for twelve hours. But we were eating and drinking and playing cards until 6am, and had no idea. Woke up the next morning and saw that the lake was up above the dock. My uncle called and said we got almost 9 inches of rain.

Now, I had deliberately been leaving the television off, and had read no newspapers, for days. I was so involved in doing nothing but relaxing that I even forgot about football on Sunday. Just completely spaced it.

But yesterday evening, I cam down the mountain and went into Keene to get some food to grill because the rain had stopped. All of Keene that I could see was underwater. The Shaws was closed due to flooding, and both sides of 101 were completely inundated.

All my mom's friends from Boston, who had seen all this on the news, kept calling to make sure everything was OK. Except for the overtopped dock, all was well here. The roads are fine, the house is fine, and if one stayed here on these dirt roads, one would have no clue what happened.

I finally broke down today and turned on the noon news out of Boston. It was all about the flood, several people missing, and the local police station got flooded out with seven feet of water. I honestly had no idea. Had I been sober Saturday night, I might have been worried.

The moral, I suppose, is that the axiom is true: God protects drunks and small children.

[Midlodemocrat]

1. The flood doesn't sound like fun, but the log cabin sounds nice.

My husband is dying for us to get one. I am a little leery though, I don't need another place to keep up.

[WilliamPitt]

3. I cannot reccomend it highly enough

A small three-room cabin at the end of five miles of dirt road in the middle of the woods...fireplace and forest...lake and kayak and stars and quiet and fresh air and changing leaves (and the occasional disastrous flood, I guess).

Do it. It isn't hard to keep up a small cabin, and we close the place down in November anyway, so the upkeep is only eight months of the year.

[Midlodemocrat]

4. There is a place in the Blue Ridge that we have been looking at.

Appalachian style log cabins complete with black walnut furniture for $120,000. Not a lot of land, but that's okay, beautiful front porch with gorgeous views of the Blue Ridge.

My only hesitation at this point is driving there every weekend. 3 hours each way. The teenager will have no part of that.

I think we will have to do it at some point. He really loves to fish and it would be his total dream to own one of these.

I'd like to try to find something between here and where he works in Jersey so we could meet halfway on weekends. I think that would be best at least for me.

[WCGreen]

7. Phillip Roth.......

[GalleryGod]

2. Apparently so ! Very Glad you're safe,though!

My life is so crushingly DULL, Will...I'm glad I have yours to vicariously peek at :hide: and experience!

[VelmaD]

5. Thank you for checking in...

I was starting to worry about you a little bit. You know me...I'm like that. :) :hug:

[underpants]

6. How deep is the water.....no a little further out......a LEETLE further..

:bounce:

[SOteric]

8. Glad everyone is safe, and doggies are doing well.

But just in case the thought crossed your mind, it's not going to be a good day to get liquored up and go swimming.

:hi:

[jus_the_facts]

9. Must be nice....

....and yeah somehow I was always protected whilst smashed as well.