Yep, it’s still raining, and now it’s flooding, too.  I woke up this morning to the sound of a monsoon like downpour…the kind we normally associate with very tropical weather.  I looked out the bathroom window and found a good majority of our back yard to be under water.  The garden had turned into a pond, and even half of our front yard was flooded out.  It’s been years since we’ve had to worry about the front yard flooding, so I knew it’d done some heavy raining.

A good majority of the county is dealing with flooding right now, and Oconee County schools are running buses on a 2 hour delay in the morning.  Most of the damage is happening up in the mountains, and we happen to live right at the base of that.  Luckily the creek behind our house is as we call it “down in the holler” lol, so we don’t have to worry about flooding come off that creek.

According to WGOG someone reported receiving 6.8″ of rain in Walhalla between 7am yesterday and 12:30pm today.  I definitely believe it!  My mom called this morning to say there’s a massive land slide on her road (one road over from ours), so she couldn’t get out to go to church.  It wouldn’t have done her any good anyway because a couple larger creeks above between her house and the church were all flooded out.  Sertoma Field is completely under water as usual, but I’ve never seen it this bad.

Luckily the lower half of the county doesn’t seem to have been hit as hard.  When we headed to dinner some of the roads were even drying up, and it hardly rained on us at all.  We did a quick dinner at Fatz Cafe to celebrate our anniversary (6 years today), then we went to the store to pick up some stuff just in case the river floods later tonight.  We wouldn’t have to worry too much about the riving flooding us out of our house, but we’d have to worry about it flooding the road out preventing us from getting to town.

I decided to take advantage of some coupons I had for some new makeup now that my face is darkening because of the “pregnancy mask”.  I’ve been really self conscious about my face lately, and I’m hoping the new foundation will help out.  The darker tone to my skin is causing me to notice a ton of fine lines around my mouth and eyes.  I know I’m “only” 27, but it’s making me wonder if I should seriously start using some anti wrinkle cream. I figured that’s something I wouldn’t really start doing until I hit my 30s, but now I’m rethinking that.

We also hit up Kmart in search of a new pair of work boots for Hubby since he blew a hole in the bottom of his last week.  When I can afford it I need to order him a nice pair of boots instead of constantly buying him these cheap ones that wear out so quickly.

Anywho, all of our running around is done for the evening, and now I’m just happy to be back inside where it’s nice and dry.  I ended up bringing half my food home with me thanks to my squished up pregnant belly not letting me eat much in one sitting, and now I’m ready to go heat up the leftovers.  The rest of those jumbo fried shrimp are going to be really good right about now.