Water, Water Everywhere!

Hurricane Katia just passed by the east coast, and thank God that it stayed out to sea!  It unfortunately did give us more rain-rain we did not need.   It has rained for the last couple of days only subsiding today.  The ground is still saturated from Irene so all this extra water is just causing more flooding.  We woke up to an inch of water in the basement; there was just too much water for our sump pump to handle.  Ross and I have discussed adding a second sump pump.  I guess this just jumped to the top of my honey-do list!

Instead of boring you with pictures of us standing in water, or the impromptu brook running through our flower garden or...  (Unfortunately for us we have way too many 'living with water' pictures for our own liking.)  How about instead I share with you some of the awesome beauty all this water can create.

Our neighbor called this morning.  He was working at Kent Falls State Park in Kent, CT and told us we needed to get there.  Normally there is a healthy brook that runs into and out of this park.  In the park the brook drops 250 feet in the span of a quarter mile over a series of falls.  These are stunning on any given day, but today they were massively incredible.  Someone our neighbor was talking to said that this was a once in a decade event (let's hope)!  In the above picture, Max and I are at the lower falls after we completed going up and back down the trail.  If you look closely you can see that I am wet from all the spray that was flying at the top falls.  The force with which the water was running was incredible; the sound of the water was deafening.  It was so cool.  I have compiled a video of the various tiers as we climbed to the top.  I hope you enjoy.