The week's weather forecast for Northeastern BC has been accurate. It has rained...and rained...and rained. The ground is again saturated, squishing underfoot. The driveway and garden plots are dotted with puddles. The south end of the potato trench is waterlogged. All available water barrels and buckets are filled to overflowing. Some of the tomato plants in containers are beginning to turn yellow.
The sump pump in the basement has been triggered frequently in the last three days. We've had the furnace on for the past 24 hours. Earlier this week, I dug out my beloved red floor-length winter nightgown to sleep in. In July.
There is flooding in town, particularly to the south and to the west. Several streets have been blocked off, an evacuation alert was issued for a section of the city, and a sandbag filling station has been set up for city residents. Another rainfall warning was posted for the region two hours ago. The forecast shows periodic rain continuing for another 7 days. The temperature doesn't look like it will get above 20 for the next two weeks.
I, along with the garden, would like some sunshine, heat, and butterflies, please! Not Texas/New Mexico/Arizona heat, mind you. Just used-to-be-predictable summertime-in-Canada heat. 25-32 degrees Celsius would be wonderful. As a Maritimer, it feels almost sacrilegious to specify a preference for dry heat, but I'm putting that out there. Thanks, Mother Nature.
Looking up the driveway
The swamped potato trench
The rain barrels are full...
...as are these...
...and these. (That's not all of them, but you get the idea.)
The trench at the side of the house that was (thankfully) dug last Fall. It is keeping our basement from flooding.
13 degrees Celsius at 2:20pm. Here's to sunnier days ahead!
Yikes! That's just lousy!
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