Rain!!!

The rains came today.  Finally!  We got what we've been wishing for for a long time.  But you know that old saying "Be careful what you wish for."  The rains came in a huge deluge.  I had taken my mom into Nac for a doctor's appointment.  We had to wait TWO HOURS to see him.  He very conveniently disappeared right after we checked in.  And then he sent us over to the hospital for a blood draw.  That took another hour.  We dropped the prescriptions by the pharmacy and while waiting at the drive-through window it started pouring, so we quickly got on the road toward home.  Within two miles it was raining so hard visibility was practically zero.  It was that way for 27 miles and just as I was about ready to breathe a sign of relief, this is the scene I came upon with only a quarter mile left before home.  Of course when I first drove up it was much worse but it was pouring so hard I really couldn't get out of the car.  There was a tree all the way across the road, and a young man was attempting to move it away.  I finally got out in the downpour and went to see if I could help but he told me he had called a neighbor to bring a chain saw.  Within about 10 minutes they managed to make the road passable again and I finally pulled out my trusty little point-and-shoot camera and braved the rain again to get at least one blurry picture of the storm damage.  This rain was not a bit too soon.  Yesterday afternoon we had a brush fire within a half mile of our bottomland.  Heavy winds caused a tree branch to fall on a power line, causing a spark which ignited dry grass in a neighbor's meadow which was adjacent to our property.  It took the fire department a while to figure out how to get to the fire but they were eventually successful in extinguishing it.