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Tomatoes from Aruba

August 30, 2011 at 11:58 am | Posted in wall street | 3 Comments

I live at an altitude that never floods – fifty feet or so above the nearest stream, and hundreds of feet above the nearest river.  That said, the flooding in the area exceeded even the March meltdown and runoff that washed out roads and isolated some of my neighbors.

I want to share this picture of the “damage” in my kitchen garden.  Yes, the wind did blow.  It didn’t knock down any trees on my property, but I lost communication when a tree fell just down the road (amazingly enough, the electrical line was strong enough to hold the leaning tree without breaking).

I found out how addicted I am to communication.  It took less than 48 hours after losing touch with the outside world for me to go searching for a place to read my e-mail.  That’s how I found out just how much flooding there was in the area surrounding me, as I had to turn back and find another route four times traveling the few miles to the center of town.

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