It is sheeting it down outside agian, raining so hard that visibility is pretty pour and I've been watching the waterfall become more viscous since about 7:30 this morning. I looked at the flood defenses we've put up and realised that half of them have slumped down during the night and are fat all use.
On top of that the poor old Highways Mantaince peeps were a bit too efficient and when clearing the road that runs past the end of our drive they managed to scrape away the 'sleeping police man' other wise known as that dam great lump that every body grounds their car on at the entrance to the drive. This is bad news as it was a very effective deterient of the two rivers that appeared instead of the road (seeing as we are at the bottom of a little vally and the road goes up and down the valley).
This means that water and rubble and leaf mulch and mud and probably the odd cow are now going to go zooming striaght down the drive way towards us and our megre, pathetic little defenses - this means if there is a repeat of Friday even more water will be spewing forth into our home - sigh.
We have electricity agian! And thanks to three helpful volunteers we now have no stinky carpet (well its outside at least) and no sticky sofa bed (also outside).
This was lots and lots of hard work - the bad news was that we found some mould on the kitchen cupboards so they have to go too - not sure how we're going to handle that one to be completely honest!
I'm thinking people coming to visit who like DIY? I'll see exactly what the insurance peeps say first though I think.
The down side is that the village bowsers appear to be missing still - this is currently being blamed on the fact that the 'lads' who are delivering all this stuff are liverpuddlians and therefore are lost - I'm assuming this is becuase they have no maps extra of the area and have never been here before rather than it being a slight on the navagational skills of those in Liverpool!
Our voluteers did well in that they also helped remove Barbaras carpet too which after all the effort of drying and sucking out of water - is in the end being binned - sigh.
Today the saddest thing was seeing all the appliences moved out of the house - these are all things we associate with living together - the fridge freezer we got when we moved into the Essex flat and the rest has been got since we moved here and therefore isn't exactly old 🙁
I'm not sure if Al's written about the flood defenses yet but tonight we put them up 'just in case'.
I've stopped throwing up aswell - though I still feel a bit nuaes especially when peopl started talking about having a botulism shake for lunch whilst pointing at the disgusting froth issuing forth from the carpet.
We're getting there - there is still lots of laughter and hope - well sort of - sigh.
I've been puking and the other and its not fun, feeling freezing cold when Al asures me its warm and then feeling the shards of glass twisting in my gut. I start to feel better and try to get out of bed only to go dizzy with a head that feels twenty times as heavy as it is and a tingling all over - suddenly hot and disorientated.
What I feel slighly guilty about though is that I have finially got my hands on the Harry Potter book and resent having to stop reading for the next wave of cramps - boiling hungry eats at my insides but unfortunatly its no food at the mo as I just spew it all back up again - sigh.
poor Alaric is now attempting to work on his clever rig of internet and generator etc... with the thought that he is now on his own with trying to clear downstairs - I mean I know I couldnt do any of the heavy lifting anyway but at least I could do the small things like clearing off cabinates - now I can't even do that.
Plus he has now lost quiet a bit of work time.
Oh well I suppose I'll just have to continue ready - I swear the woman arranges for these books to come out when I'm sick!
We've built a flood diverter:
Heavy rain is predicted tomorrow, and if it floods again, this thing should help to divert the stream around behind the house.
Thing is, it reminds me of the scenery from the first part of Half Life: 2. I feel compelled to find some yellow paint and put a lambda symbol on it.
Domestic | sarah | 
Thu 26th Jul 2007 8:53 am | 
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