Things we found in utter devastation - a flower bed frame pulled from the ground and now askew, a filthy, muddy walkway, stairs and landing, some landscaping timbers strewn about, two - not one - but two wood cribs tippled over, soaked patio cushions (yep...all eight), a bucket (of ours) across the road, milk crate of wood scattered everywhere, the insulation from the crawl space is now off the walls - play the Pink Panther tune in your head - it'll be funnier and besides, the insulation is pink. The propane tank is on its side, NO HEAT, a huge mess under the cabin, a golf ball, a horseshoe and a yard full of water. There's a good chance the six bushes that I planted last year are dead. They look dead...but everything looks dead! There's even a critter that displaced heaps of stones and gravel from under the concrete slab so he could move in!!! Maybe he's an aquanaut of some sort - but if there's water on the land, then that hole has gotta be like a sewer...just sayin'.
This has been one shocking day.
Prior to the end of our day, a neighbor stopped by and chatted with Carlo. During their chat, Carlo asked the neighbor if he had seen our post with welcome sign - let me mention this is the same post that the same neighbor picked up and put on our porch during the September 2010 flood and this same neighbor actually responds with, "yes, it's down a few properties, across the road, in a field." Nice to know where it went but you'd think he'd remember it was ours and not leave it laying out there. Guess he didn't want to be bothered. So Carlo trekked down the road several properties, went across the road into the field and retrieved our post with welcome sign, pulling it back down the road to its home in the front of the cabin! Welcome home!
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