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i still haven’t heard anything directly, but my sister posted some videos to the farm Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CRU7LtcpCDM/ and confirmed in the caption that no people or animals were lost or injured, so that’s something at least.
The first picture is just of a rainbow, but the second slide is a video from inside the farm store, which is the building I posted a sunny day picture of yesterday. She swings the camera to look out the window, and that mass of flowing water she’s showing as she says “our little bridge is overtopped”, is where the culvert should be. Just to the right, out of frame, is where all my building supplies were; that stream bed is ten feet deep thereabouts and there’s never been flooding in that spot, so while I badly wanted to move my building supplies out of there, it wasn’t urgent and the tractor with the forks wasn’t working and I can’t drive it anyway, so.
anyway. My shit is everyone’s last priority, as it should be of course, but a friend said she’d stop by today and see if she could look and see if at least it’s still there, even if it’s all damaged– maybe something can be salvaged. I don’t know.
I’m considering going out on Friday. I only make $100 a day before taxes, so it basically doesn’t fucking matter if I work one day more or not, not given the scale of financial loss I’m up against here. (Yeah… the tiny house was a financial extravagance I’ve gone into debt for, and it’s going to take me an embarrassingly long time to pay that off, but at that point you look at the bottom and you contemplate just getting a shovel because this is already four figures, why not make it five? Fuck. Is that the sunk cost fallacy? I guess it really depends on whether anything can be salvaged.)
I don’t know that there’s anything to be done anyway.
If you look at the last video she posted, that’s the front of the house. The Laughing Earth sign is on posts I think are nine feet tall; the End Police Brutality banner on it is at least four feet off the ground, maybe a bit higher. And when she pans out over the vast expanse of moving water, that’s the picking garden; it’s a low-lying area. She verbally points out “the arches”– she is referring to a tiny protuberance of wire you can see briefly slightly right of center in the frame, and that’s the top of a wire mesh archway that beans are trained to climb. I think it’s at least seven feet tall, it’s designed for people to walk through.
Anyway. Sister is somewhat preoccupied, I think, by the fact that the flood rose over the circuit breaker for her house, and I will leave her in peace to deal with that, but. I’m super bummed, friends, and there’s just not much anybody can do about that right now. (Your picture was not posted)
