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From Hunky Husband's Cell Phone

Herewith are a few more photos from our recent trip to New Hampshire, starting with the horse show on 9/5/2016. I failed to take my camera into the arena, so used HH's phone to take a couple of photos of him and Bogie (one of which was previously posted) and one of the arena before the show began. I didn't want to do anything distracting (to the horses or to me!) during the performance, itself.

On our way from St Louis to Kansas City, Missouri, we were treated to a gorgeous sunset. These photos don't do it justice, of course!

More photos from trip to New Hampshire

Bogie posted Biker Chick and her Parents with photos of her and her Harley, including her dad (my Hunky Husband, of course!) and me. I promised her to post at least one more "Biker Chick" photo that is one of my favorites. This is it, below.

Later, I caught photos of Bogie and HH - as we were wandering about town before lunch and then the horse show - that I think did not get downloaded to Bogie's hard drive.

Finally, another shot of water as it was receding from its peak just 12-14 hours after our arrival home. This is about as much as the creek water receded until about 48 hours later - after peaking, again. (You may be able to see the yellow flag with which HH had marked the highest water level that he saw - straight out, beyond the patio, from the steps.

When he isn't quite so busy, I'll ask HH to download the photos from our trip that are on his phone.

 

Ten days - then, more flooding

For the past 10 days, Hunky Husband and I have been taking a little road trip to New Hampshire to visit Bogie for the first time since 2004. Bogie has posted about our activities during our stay at 90% Done and Lipizzaner Stallions In Goffstown, NH. I'll write a bit about the past 24 hours during which we saw HH's sister in St Louis, drove home, and returned to more flooding. The last 100 miles of our trip was (off and on) made tough driving by heavy rainfall. The minimum speed on the Kansas Turnpike, on which we traveled from Emporia KS to Wichita KS, is 40 mph. At times, visibility was too poor for HH to maintain even that low speed. We drove with the emergency flashers blinking. We dared not pull off on the side. There have been numerous reports over the years of people who did that on the Turnpike only to have someone plow into the rear of their car. Not a good thing.

By 1:00am, today, we were safely home and experiencing a moderate rainfall. We collapsed into our beds. After arising a couple of times during the night, I arose for good at about 8:30am. By then, HH had marked the highest flooding of our backyard that he had witnessed and it was obvious that the water was receding. Good news. Well...normally...the water totally recedes back to the creek's bed within 6-12 hours. Not this time. The creek water is still out of banks. We have been told that the water (of the Arkansas river into which our creek flows about 2 miles downstream from us) is still rising. This is not good - especially as we are expecting more rain, tonight.

As of 1:30pm (three hours ago), Sedgwick County (all of Wichita, Derby, and several other small cities - plus about half of Mulvane - are within Sedgwick County) declared a state of emergency. Had I not been on travel for the past 10 days, I would have been asked to report to the Sedgwick County Emergency Operations Center; but, fortunately, that task falls to another, this time.

With the river as high as it is, I must admit to being a bit nervous as to the outcome in the next 24-48 hours. Well...we keep saying that, as long as the people come out OK, the rest is just stuff!

Until I can download a bunch of photos that I took, on travel, this photo of Bogie and her dad (my HH, of course!) will have to suffice.