The Native Iowan

It’s a pleasant Sunday here. A blood sport Sunday. A good UFC card starting. Gotta luv bloodsports

More rain predicted later today.

We’ve had enough. the system(s) have been over-burdened by the hydrostatic forces we’ve experienced over the past several days. The house is damp and getting mouldy. The dogs need to be dry for a bit. The outside area of the house, the underneath is quite muddy. The inside is not terribly clean. The yards on the property are all a jungle. Will need a hay baler to mow them.

The region is cleaning itself up. The roads. The power grid. The bridges and culverts have all been stressed. Severely stressed.

I am impressed. After living in a developing country for decades, I find the response of the service providers to be impressive. Sure. One might complain about having power off for 3 days. About road closures and associated inconveniences.

But my decades in the land of developing nations has shown me how lucky I am now.

In the Islands, we all had our own standby power. Our own water supplies.

Here on the farm we live on tank water, so that was never an issue. But, butttt… we depend on electric pumps to move our water. To flush the toilets. A flawed self sufficiency, indeed.

I shall rebuild the systems here. Re-wire and re-plumb a few things to create a plug-n-play backup system.

For the next time.

I need to shout out to my neighbours and friends on Belvedere Farm. Nick showed up with a little Honda Genset that made things so much better. The 2kva gennnie powered my water pump, my refrigerator and my TV. So I maintained personal hygiene, cold beer, and TV entertainment throughout the power outage. Big thanks!

Also need to shout out to Nick and Salome in Lismore. They got evacuated as their house went under on the 28th. Nick hitched a ride back to their house within 3 days, started cleaning. As of yesterday they were back in their house, with their two teen aged kids, getting things all cleaned up. What a great example of positive energy. My very best wishes go to them as they continue to dig out of the damage.

I hear some rumbling in the skies. Rain is predicted, promised for this afternoon.

Have got everything I can open to the outside, open, to help dry out the inside. I need to not get distracted. Distracted as I write and watch the fights. Probably wont be hanging the laundry on the line.

Ran and closed it all. The rains came quickly.

Blood Sport Show has been gooood. Worth the price of entry.

And the beast goez on

More later

Big smiles