Soggy today. I’m a little nervous every time it rains here. It’s not always clear when the rain is going to be a heavy drizzle, and when we need to start working on an ark. Getting caught in the rain without an umbrella isn’t as a hassle as watching your car part the seas as you roll down the street in an effort to get home (when the streets are passable at all). Some neighborhoods flood routinely, and I guess mine is one of them.

The question is, how badly? And how much more will it rain?

Everything is up off the floor, for the most part. The stuff that’s on the floor is replaceable. What makes me nervous is the cleanup, although the floor is hard concrete or tile except the little bedroom floor, which is covered in FLOR.

Still, I don’t want to mop up mucky water this week, or ever.

And I don’t want to deal with the roaches.

While it was raining on Thursday I saw them, crawling up onto elevated bricks and landscaping, or heaving themselves slowly and clumsily toward and into my garage. I could almost see them gasping. Once finding dry land, they walked in circles, where do I go, where do I go?

The cupcake store (Sugarbaby’s) said that water came into the store, and that a telephone pole float down the street.

Pictures from latest big rain, Thursday.