We had three inches of rain overnight earlier this week. I know because I have a new rain gauge and the weather was warm enough for me to linger at the gate of the kitchen garden. A couple of days later I went by the temple to pick up a box of food from the food pantry, a box that was being delivered along with baby clothes to a young couple in the neighboring county. When I opened the door, the carpet was squishy as I stepped in.
Our chapel and offices are in an old hospital building and we've been flooded before. Something about the old French drains and the site of the building at the downhill end of a parking lot. The landlords were called and they sent in a crew with vacuums and heaters and dehumidifiers. We moved everything into the tiny chapel and left both the heat and the AC on.
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Ah, blessings on your walls and halls, floors and doors, old carpets and well used drains -