It started to drizzle while I was enjoying an Italian sausage, and a few minutes later, when I was in the Men’s Room, the rain turned abruptly torrential with high wind that blew over a sponsor’s tent. The wind was from the south at first and a short while later turned around and came from the north. All the horses and handlers headed to their trailers. Judy was sheltering with the souvenir salespeople and got the car when there was a lull in the storm.
We drove home through Strafford without a problem, but the storm delivered about four inches rain in about four hours and caused a lot of flooding. Parts of our road were washed out. The local towns all had a lot of road damage, trees down and loss of power. We had no power for about four hours. Parts of Rte. 132 were condemned and families were evacuated to shelters.
We got a month's worth of rain on the first afternoon of the month.
Anna and Gardner were visiting us for the holiday weekend with their friends Emily and John. Our roads were so bad that they couldn’t get back here and had to stay in Hanover that night. They got back here the next day, the last two days have been beautiful, warm and sunny, and we had a BBQ.
Trucks full of rocks and gravel are up and down the road today.
New blooms: campanula, Russian sage, first hosta.
At the Tunbridge Fairgrounds for the horse show as the storm began. The rains are coming form the left side of the picture.
About ten minutes later the wind and rain are now coming from the right side. The track is flooded, a tent blew over, the show is abandoned.
The next day on our road near the junction of the pavement and dirt sections there was extensive erosion like this driveway.
This driveway is now a canyon....
...about ten feet deep.
The road near us has washed out down to a single lane.
The next day was warm and sunny, and there was no rain for the first time in a week.
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