I wasn’t so much worried about the first floor getting inundated because it’s elevated, but the basement and structures at lower levels were threatened. I started to try to move things out of the basement and gave up because of the impossibility of it; I just had to hope things wouldn’t flood that far (and if it did, the problem of water in the basement was a much bigger issue than what it ruined there). Just the yard getting flooded created havoc - a bunch of terracing and landscaping was destroyed, possibly a fence (we’ll see when the water drops below it - the neighbor’s chain link fence has been utterly flattened by the force of the water and the debris in it), and had it gotten any higher, it threatened a tool shed and chicken coop (I prepared space for them in the house, should I need to relocate them), and the vegetable garden that produces all my fruits and vegetables - if the water had reached that part, it would have likely been permanently contaminated.
It’s looking now like the weekend will be drier - and the rain later - than previous indicated, so it looks like flooding (for me, anyways) may have been averted until the next deluge.
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