Flooded Again

Have I ever mentioned our apartment complex is built on a flood plain?  When it rains really hard, the creek situated 100 yards away overflows and breaches into the field between it and our parking lot.  If it continues raining, the parking lot floods.  Last spring the water got all the way up to the front step leading up to the second and third floors.

Yesterday it rained all day and all night.  About 3am the fire department pounded on our door to inform us the creek was overflowing and the parking lot would flood within the hour.  Since My Husband had to be awake shortly anyway, he got up and moved his car to the other side of the complex and I rolled myself out of bed to cook him breakfast.

Luckily it stopped raining by the time he went to work.  The water, which was creeping through the parking lot, began to ebb.  By noon it had evaporated from the pavement, leaving layers of mud in its wake.  The field was still full and running on a current at 3pm, but as the afternoon turned to evening most of the water sunk into the ground or returned to the creek.

The guy who lives downstairs had a bunch of his army buddies show up with trucks and sandbags to fortify his first-floor home.  The weatherman is calling for another 3-6 inches of rain tonight, and with the ground so drenched and the air so humid we'll flood again for sure if that happens.

Last spring when we flooded, My Husband was still deployed and I was on the verge of freaking out.  The worst part is the refuse the flooded creek leaves behind...trash, trees, pounds of mud and scads of displaced rodents.  With those rodents come snakes, slithering through the current like sea monsters of lore.  After the water recedes, the stench of rotting foliage and bits of dead mice who couldn't escape their serpentine predators is over powering.

Heaven help some intrepid water moccassin who tries to touch Buoy.  I've never eaten fried snake, but if one of those things goes after my baby it's gonna end up dead on the table faster than you can say "possum surprise."