Updated: It's Flooding Here...

Update: The rain has stopped for now and the water is going down, but it's still a bloody mess at my place.  My car is trapped at the top of the hill and getting it down will be perilous, there's a weakened culvert that could collapse at any time on the road below us, and I also brilliantly took out my own knee somehow, so now I'm limping around and not much good at the manual labor required to start getting past this.  I don't often need to take time outs to reassemble my life and pull myself back together, but now is looking like one of those time.  I'm sorry in advance if there's a delay with the next update for Love Letters, and while I've started the Cody story, there isn't enough of it to publish for you yet.  If I can't get a decent post together by Tuesday I'll give you a sneak peek at a story getting published next month in the Forgotten Menagerie anthology with Storm Moon Press.  Sorry, guys.  Life is weird.


Boulder County has gotten almost 7 inches in the past 24 hours, and that means flash floods.  The student housing next to the central creek in Boulder has been evacuated, and so has the place where I would normally work today, a senior living community with a large and complicated population.

Flooding pic from on campus last night

My man and I live up in the mountains, where you'd think there'd be less of a problem because of higher ground.  Hah!  No.  Let me share the wonders of this torrential rain with you.

This is our road.

This is the waterfall coming around the retaining wall, diverting water down our road so that it doesn't go straight into the house.

There's me standing next to where the other side of the retaining wall is failing, and the little sinkhole that's getting a little bigger every hour.

How Exciting!

Actually both exciting and scary.  Keep your fingers crossed for us, please.  We're pretty much trapped at home because the canyon leading to our road is having rockfall issues, and going into town wouldn't do much good anyway since the roads are a mess, so.  Hell, at least I'm not at work today.  Which, oh yeah, evacuated, so!  Holy crap!  I hope you all are doing great!