So Much Rain

Wednesday night it must have rained—hard—all night. At 5am I felt Jeremy get up. He heard dripping in my closet. He threw a towel at it and went back to sleep. 

In the morning our yard had huge puddles and our ditch was full. I only took a video of the yard. 

When I worked up the nerve to check the leak damage, I found that the water had pretty much stayed in the wall. It was a leak around our chimney which is not altogether new but has never been this bad. 

While I’m on the phone with my brother, adding us to his (lengthy) list of jobs to attend to, Isaiah came in soaking wet from head to toe. He said he was doing cannonballs into the ditch and wanted his goggles so that he could go underwater. It was actually a very warm rain. All of the children were outside playing in the rain 

They continued to play and I went back upstairs and realized that the drywall crumbled easily. 

On Friday I let the boys go at it and they took off the rest of the drywall. 

I’m listening to the wind tonight, wondering if it will rain and how much rain has been absorbed by that drywall that will now come straight down the chimney brick now. 🤔