harriehq3d ago

So, nobody cares and you don't have the local history and reference to "get it"… but our farm flooded this morning. Entirely. Around the new house - it didn't come inside - and basically the entire 15 acres short of the 150+ yr old farmhouse which has a raised yard, and the old milk/dairy barn stayed dry. Everything else… the whole damn creek was running through the farmyard. We got all of the outdoor animals safe, short of a few barncats that are hopefully hiding in a hayloft… and the chickens/ducks. My sister couldn't get to their coop - the water was hip high on her. They DO have higher up roosts so hopefully some of them were smart. Ummm… but yea. We've lived here almost 35 years - never had anything like this. One of the local old-timers said he saw it higher once "when he was a boy." It's going down now. But the sky is still spitting big fat rain in bursts. Don't know if water got into the cars. Lots of tools and equipment completely lost in one of the other barns that got washed through.


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And it's FINE. It's fine. There's definitely some equipment/tools/machinery loss in one of the barns, some damage like to the dog kennel and I think we lost some solar panels… but the animals are all(?) ok (haven't officially counted foul yet, and one cat unaccounted for but she disappears for days at a time anyway) and IT'S FINE IT'S FINE but - there is huge stress and anxiety in my body from just getting through it and seeing the water surrounding us and being up to my knees in water going out to bring my dog into the house - and IT'S FINE but I would really like to just have a good cry and flush it all out of my system but I literally fucking CAN'T because WE'RE FINE so it DOESN’T REALLY MATTER and I don't DESERVE to cry.


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Apr 11 at 5:03pmWeb