The Sky is Falling Complaint Thread

LeatherGryphon

Yesterday was the first of a series of several upcoming melty days.  It remains to be seen how messy that will turn out to be.   There's a foot of packed snow everywhere on the ground, soon it will be running down the hills into the creeks and revealing the inch of ice underneath.  It's zippy time walking down the driveway again.  I expect in a day or so, the local creek to be wildly rushing through town, barely under the bridge, and widening across the swamp as it leaves town.  I remember times in the '50s and '60s after a particularly heavy winter and quick thaw, when this downtown area would run inches of muddy water across the bridge and main road and threaten to remove the old blacksmith shop on it's south bank across the creek.  And somewhere during the 40 years after '66 that I was gone from here, the blacksmith shop did succumb.  Now about the only thing left that could suffer from a typical spring overflow will be the public park.  From my house here on the north side of the creek I look down into the beginning of the swamp on the west end of town, but this house is situated high enough on the hill that the swamp should never rise that high. 

And now for something not completely different:  There's still hope for daffodils in February.

kyoto kid

DanaTA said:

TJohn said:

Sounds like a plan.

I've been hit with low-grade flu. Leaving me feeling puny.

Get well soon! 

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LeatherGryphon

TJohn said:

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I've been hit with low-grade flu. Leaving me feeling puny.

Would a higher grade flu make you feel bigger?