Ah, a pre-existing condition exacerbated by the work you’re doing because of the flood. I was thinking it was directly caused by the flood. Thanks for the clarification.
And of course I hope things get better soon.
As of this morning the flood has dropped 41 inches. Yesterday the Red Cross dropped off another clean up kit. I let them know that the broom heads don’t match the handles, so they can get that corrected as soon as possible. I got a couple gallons of bleach and a 12 pack of water. I’m going to stop at the emergency groups location and see if there is anything of use. I think they may have some Goodwill vouchers, and I can use those clothes to clean in. I don’t have many clothes that are good and I hate to ruin them. Fema will stop tonight. The mosquito swarms are hatching out. Like I figured they will do nothing until the main part of town is afflicted.
I don’t care that people ask about the medical condition. I just don’t tell it to often so people don’t run when they see me coming. I also had trouble thinking to where I couldn’t come up with words for anything. My sentence structure in not so convoluted and archaic as it was a few years ago. My ability to think is directly related to the control of my immune response causing the swelling.
I have been pushing myself in the garden this year to be sure to grow food. Well you see where that got me. I have been using the gardening as a physical activity for recovery for four years. The first year it took me all summer to weed a 8 foot section. The next year I could finish that section and by fall redid a whole new section. After that I could do the whole garden if I used time saving short cuts, and stopped when I needed to. I had landscaping barrier on a lot of the garden to kill weeds and grew the plants in slits in the material. Last year I remembered a lot of things about gardening that I’d forgotten with everything else, so last year I was companion planting in intensive beds.
I see they had a crowd control problem in Milwaukee. The people thought that they were giving out $400 food vouchers, which they weren’t. I don’t know why they thought they would get anything if they got violent like they did.
I scored 6 gallons of bleach, which we will use up for sure. I got an insect repellent, heavy duty gloves, and a flat end shovel that can scrap up debris. The lady dropping off the kit yesterday said they eventually got a broom head to screw on the handle. It only took them 15 minutes. The hands are better, and maybe I can do light stuff in a day or two. 
As of now the flood is down 46.5 inches.
This is all good news! I’m glad you’re feeling better and things are improving. Is there anything you need that we dopers could send you?
Thanks for offering.
I didn’t check the water level today. There may have been a little decline, but the remaining slurry will likely go down slowly. The coating on the yard is slick as shit and smells like it too.
One thing I do when my hands are slow responding is to avoid stuff that cuts. I was using the pruning shears yesterday on a few iris. While trimming the roots I cut into my left middle finger. :smack: The cut is about 3/8 long and a 1/4 inch deep. I can move the finger so nothing vital got cut. This may seem like a rare event, but it’s not. I do it with scissors too. This time there was quit a bit of blood on the plants and sidewalk. I see I didn’t wash it all off. This will definitely keep me from trying to fix stuff. At least until this afternoon when I know I’ll do something anyway and start bleeding again. :rolleyes: It’s hard not to try to work on the mess.
Today is the last day I post to this thread I hope. This makes 3 weeks of flood for me. Where did the month go? The flood is down 51 inches. To get the water off the lawn will take about 2 inches more, and that’s to the stage of too wet to walk on. It needs to go down about 4 inches to solidify the ground on the low spots.
I kept the finger cut clean yesterday and have incentive enough to do it again today. The hands are better today.
Ma manged to slip on the slick mud and cover herself with the stinky stuff.
The dam in Rio and Pardeeville didn’t fail completely, but are the reason why we flooded as bad as wee did. Roads and bridges are still closed or gone. The railroad tracks are basically gone in Sauk county, which is a big problem for more than that county. I wouldn’t go to Devils lake for vacation this year. The campgrounds are open, and everything else is closed. No trails, swimming or boating. The lake is way over it’s banks and old trees have been cut down in the lake picnic areas. Montello has been split in two at the Fox dams, without a usable bridge. Emergency vehicles and police can’t service half the city and the outlying area.
I’ll finish up wishing the best of outcomes for the people dealing with the floods.
Reviving a 17-year-old zombie thread: This popped up while I was looking for something else. I have relatives in the Cedar Rapids area, and the place was really just starting to recover from the 2008 flood, when the 2020 derecho hit and severely damaged much of the city.
One of them was working at a chiropractor’s office, just outside the flood zone, and came back to work to encounter a very peculiar odor. She followed her nose, and its source was a 55-gallon drum full of cinnamon, from the Quaker Oats plant in downtown CR, that had marinated in yucky flood water for who knows how long. She also said that three school buses had just been put up on risers for maintenance when the evacuation order was issued, and AFAIK they’ve never been found.
Edited title to include the approximate date.