Reply #9: Melted Today

[BQueen]

but the trees really took a beating. So many just split down the middle in halves and thirds, which looked really strange after the snowfall. I was lucky re: power, but it was patchy, at that. Lima was (and maybe still is) a mess of downed power lines and closed streets. The NBC affiliate was out for about 24 hours. Today was the first day I drove any distance, and I was worried about high water (justly so).

Expecting big rain soon, and everything's near flood stage. I just keep saying I want to go 6 mos without having an adjoining county declared a disaster area. (Grew up near/family in Van Wert for the big tornado Nov '02, and it's been one thing after another since then, seemingly.) Thought it odd that Auglaize wasn't for this one, though...didn't seem like we got any less than Allen and Mercer. But we lost all the marginal trees last summer or the one before that -- it was awful, I think I counted 10 down just on our usual doggie-walk routes.

(Wayne Trace? Lincolnview -- yours was the only marching band smaller than ours, iirc....a mean feat.)