When it rains, it pours!

I didn't get to socialize any on here or anywhere else for that matter yesterday due to a horrible surprise I had at or around 0400 in the morning. I was finishing up my gun cleaning post when I had a feeling to check my shop area for possible flooding. My area was getting pounded with torrential rains for several hours throughout the previous day and night so I had a bad feeling about my shop.

It's flooded in the past, but not since I built a retaining wall and added some dirt around the house to slope the water away.

My gut doesn't lie and my shop was under water. This ranks up there pretty high with some of the things that can happen to you that's guaranteed to make you feel shitty. But, what do ya do? Get busy, because it's not going to get cleaned up on it's own.

I wake up @carolina-girl just to tell her to be alert while I go up on the roof to check the gutters. I normally wouldn't bother with waking her up, but since it was dark, pouring rain and I have trouble getting on and off the roof as it is because of my feet issues, I thought it would be a good idea just to be on the safety sally side. Only one downspout was clogged so that tells me that the ground has just soaked up too much water near the foundation and it's seeping in. I desperately need to install a French Drain around the house.

After coming off of the roof, the fun part begins. I don't know what I would do if I didn't have this to use. This thing has paid for itself tenfold. I don't know how much it weighed when it was full of water but I know it was frickin heavy. I have a drain in my shop floor but impatient Bandito didn't want to stand there and gently pour the water in the small hole, so I just carried it outside and dumped it in the woods. Several trips were made; The Bandit is very sore today.

I didn't ask @carolina-girl to help me but like a trooper, she was right there with me fighting what seemed to be a losing battle. Here's another tool that came in really handy yesterday.

What makes everything so bad is all of the tools and equipment that I have in my shop and trying to move everything around to get everything dry. A real pain in the ass, son! I placed a few if these around which helped alot. The rain FINALLY quit but were supposed to get more today.

This picture was taken by a friend of mine. It's a picture of a park about 15 miles away from me that is completely under water from yesterday's rain.

I hope your weekend was better than mine and I hope you enjoyed my Debbie Downer story lol. Feel free to follow along with me here on Steemit, I have several stories that I want to share with you! @bluelightbandit