Taking on Water

We enjoyed watching youtube.com videos on the bricks under the lowered canopy while it was storming. It was windy, and the rain was blowing in.

Pulling up the weather map it was obvious that after this storm passed we would have another, and we did.

Before going to bed I checked the basement and well room - no water. I locked the Littles in the barn and let the boys stay in the dry paddock with some hay. The second storm woke me around 2:30 a.m. with more lightning and thunder, and more rain.

In the morning we discovered that every corner of the basement had taken on water. We wet-vac'd and pulled the fan out. Then he climbed up the ladder and emptied the gutters. The Maple seed pods (helicopters) had filled the gutters to the brim. He also saw that a shingle had been damaged and the trees branches are really too close to the roof and need trimming. He doesn't want to climb on the roof, but maybe I will. With the battery-operated chainsaw I might be able to pull off some limb trimming. Neither of us like 'heights.'