Florence is still at it, dropping feet of rain overnight. Here are some photos taken at the bottom of our driveway this moring – we have a creek down there but it’s now a river. Luckily we are high and dry – our house sits about 60 or more feet above the water!
Glad you’re safe, Noelle 🤗❤️🤗
Thanks! Thinking of buying a canoe!
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I have one & I can put a engine on the back! Fastest canoe on the island!
Stay safe! I was only once in a wet hurricane (in the US) and remember well how terrifying it was and how alien it seemed to have rain fall that heavily. England’s only fairly recent hurricane was one of wind and I was in the middle of that one too (Do I hear mutterings of ‘jinxed’?). At breakfast where I was staying, people came in covered in blood and cuts from where the window glass had blown in on them overnight.
Thanks for the well wishes, William. We were very lucky. And this water will receded in a day or so – remind me not to invite you here 🙂 !
OMG, those photos are unbelievable! The force of wind and water is very scary. Glad your house sits above all that rushing water. Stay safe and dry. I hope Garfield is holding up too! 🙂
I LIKE water, MC. I spend a lot of time playing in my water bowl and licking around in the shower!
Furry hugs from Garfield
Book was Myth and Magic – hot, hot, hot!
Oooh, so good to hear. I loved writing the Breckbill family!
I always knew that repealing prohibition was a bad idea – you were so much safer in a dry country… chink chink!!
Oh, but emptying a few wine bottles during the storm was so much fun!
Goodness – how to do you check the mailbox in those weather conditions! The postman may have left some valuable mail! Thank goodness you’re ok.
Don’t know about the mail but we watched the newspaper float off this morning.
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Stay safe, we are following the hurricane’s progress from Europe.
I think the worst for us is over, but thanks for the good wishes. Now prayers for all the folks watching rising waters in the SE part of the state.
Yes indeed. And glad the worst is over for ye folks.
Thank God for the 60ft 💜💜💜
Can’t remember how many times the state has tried to sell us flood insurance. We tell them if we’re flooded all of Chapel Hill would have to be underwater.
Well I am glad to hear that Noelle 💜💜
Glad that you are safe. Houston sends out prayers as you endure this ordeal. We know what you are going through. CONTINUE TO BE SAFE AND ALERT!
Thank you, Gracie. We know you have had this experience. Luckily our area has only local flooding. The poor people in the Se corner of the state are having Houston-like flooding. But we will all get through it – Houston showed us the spirit!
Happy to hear you’re high and dry, Noelle! 🙂 xo
Thanks, Bette. I be returning the good wishes to you this winter, I bet!
Lovely to hear, Noelle. Stay safe. 🙂
Thanks you, Natalie. The water is already going down.
Wow! Write, write, write, what an opportunity to write!
Been doin’ that – slowed by research into details!
I’m glad to know you are safe <3
Happy to know you’re safe !
Thanks, TK!
Adding my wishes to stay safe as well. 60 feet is good… a much better advantage than I had during the Flood of 1993, and I lived four miles from the river!
Oooo, did you have to swim for it?
No… thankfully, the levee just kept from being topped, and it was only at 54 feet. my entire city and many surrounding me would have been in about several feet of water had it crested just a few feet higher. The before and after aerial photos of the Mississippi River around St. Louis are remarkable for that flood…
I hope you own a pair of chest waders Noelle! I have a extra pair I can send.
I’ve got some LLBean waders but the water has receded. Thanks for the offer!
Oh my! Just seeing this now – I hope the waters have receded since you wrote this. It’s good your house is up high – the mail can wait!
We are dry again! And hot…and humid…lots of mosquitoes!
I hope the waters have receded Noelle and all is safe… will change the url in the bookstore and going forward… lovely website… hugs xx
You can keep my blog site url! But the books can connect to the new site – my daughter still has to link the new site to my blog. Thanks so much!
I actually did get through to your blog when in your new site Noelle.. so perhaps your daughter had connected it already.. hugsx
You got it, Sally, I noticed it a day ago and need to have my daughter fix it!
Good that your house is smartly placed so high above water. But not nice being marooned. Glad you’re safe.
Thanks, Cynthia. It doesn’t stop the insurance companies from trying to sell us flood insurance!
Scary, Noelle! Thank goodness you’re well! ♥
Thanks, Olga. I so appreciate everyone’s good wishes.
Good grief, Noelle! I hope normality has been restored. Hasn’t it been a tempestuous crazy year? Very best wishes to you.
It has indeed been a crazy year, Jo. Thanks for your wishes!
I’ve never been in a flood area thank goodness it must be quite scary, my blog friend Marey had problems in Texas and now you, I hope it goes down quickly and hasn’t done too much damage to your neighbours down the hill.
Thanks for your concern, Charlotte. Luckily we only have the creek (down to normal) at the bottom of our hill. We sit on four acres.