FRIDAY FLOODING

Thankfully back to the 2-g-daughter morning today. RL seems to be much better and is able to eat and drink pretty much anything she wants this morning.
IR was sooo happy to see her and had such a big smile on her face when she first saw her .

While the girls played hubbie and I did some house cleaning this morning waiting for the rain to stop and the DOT to get all the fallen trees out of the roads since alot of the worst damage seemed to be up toward #2 son's house and we needed to go check on his house.
RL elected to have her morning snack out on the porch with "Meow Meow" as she calls the cat.

I emptied another 1.4 inches from our rain gauge at choretime this morning and the ground is certainly saturated all around.
Just before noon we decided to drive up to #2 son's house to give it a final check before he gets back from Florida on Saturday.
This is the site of one of the trees in the road on Davis Mountian  road on the way to his house.

Both girls went to sleep on the way there so they got naps in while we checked out everything in and around his house. Hubbie had to unstop one of his gutters that had been running over but thankfully that was the only thing we found from all the heavy rains.
We headed back home and ran through a couple showers that added to the sogginess of the day.
The girls woke up when we got home so we all had lunch. This is RL's smorgasbord for what she thought she could eat and she ate most of it along with some ice water to make her mouth feel better.

After lunch hubbie took the girls outside to enjoy part of the day with no rain showers. RL loves batting the ball with this tennis racket. We are going to have to work on keeping her eyes open and on the ball though !!!!!!

While they played I baked, 12 caramel, 3 chocolate, 2 pound, 1 blackberry wine, 2 blueberry and 1 pan of brownies.
RL wanted to help me count the eggs when they all came inside when another rain shower started.

After the girls were picked up hubbie and I did the chores early as we heard distant thunder starting up.
Just as we got inside and started our supper the storms made it to our area. Thankfully the rain wasn't so heavy here but we did get some bad thunder and lightening that lasted all evening.
I iced my cakes and got things ready for market.
Daughter called when they arrived at son-in-love's brothers house in Mocksville,NC for a weekend visit. I was worried that they would run into the rough weather on their way there. Thankfully they got there okay but she said it was really bad coming off the mountain in the heavy rains.
I am so glad they went earlier this afternoon because just after dark tonight the interstate that they had traveled had to close after several cars got trapped in 4 foot of water that flooded the interstate.
Mudslides and flooding inundated Polk county this evening .

The rain here was heavy at times and I am sure the creek is flooding but in the darkness we can't see it but can hear it's distinct roaring sound it makes when it jumps it's banks.
I made it to bed just after midnight and am very thankful that the rains have slacked and the thunder and lightening seems to have passed.
#2 son and Tif are spending their last night of their Florida vacation tonight and tried to make a family pic but Bear didn't co-operate !!

Thankful for the blessings of this day and for the healing of RL and her hand ,foot and mouth disease blisters and praying for traveling mercies for son and Tif as they travel home tomorrow.
God Bless and Good Night