Lara Almighty...

Yeah, I'm wondering if I should build the ark still...in case you wondered...

Saturday was a mess. Tornado warnings and hurricane-force winds and flash floods and craziness. We were all hunkered down in the basement, and it was kind of "fun" for a few hours, but scary mostly. The wind was INSANE. The rain was INSANE. Luckily, our hail only got gumball-sized, instead of the golf balls that were raining down on other parts of the state.

At one point, Hubby was looking out the windows, and he said to me "Lara, what's that?" I went to the window and saw that our normally flat grass in the sideyard suddenly had a big hill on it. Seriously. It looked like some huge thing was trying to force it's way out of the ground.

It honestly scared me. I had visions from the movie "Poltergeist" where the coffins of the graveyard they happened to unwittingly build their house over started coming to the surface during the rainstorm, shoving their way to the surface, and opening up, exposing what was inside...

Creepy.

So, I had to find out. I armed myself with an umbrella and crocs and went outside to see what was up with the "Instant Hill" in our yard. It was about two feet tall, and six feet long. *Shudder*

I poked it. And it quivered like a mountain of jello. It was filled with water!!!

I realized that when they buried the downspout, the exit hole in the grass had since grown together, so when the storm drains forced all the water into the ground at flash-flood speed, it got trapped under the sod and caused the huge "water bubble" under the sod. I got some garden shears and started poking the sides, to get all the water out. It was like popping a huge, green, hairy blister. FUN.

So, that was the most exciting part. The kids watched back-to-back Disney movies in the Theater (which is underground so we thought it the safest place) and Hubby was glued to the weather channel, while I Ebayed on the computer.

But now there are lakes where there shouldn't be lakes and all the flowers we spent hundreds of dollars on and potted are pretty much drowned (we had to run around gathering them under shelter but some of the pots were just too big) but we are lucky. Some people lost trees, power, homes, life, etc.

What a mess. And it's been raining since. Hasn't stopped. Tomorrow is supposed to be sunny again. Guess who gets to mow the lawn!!!

That would be HUBBY.