We've had some bad weather last week here, which normally wouldn't bother me since I really didn't have any place to go.

Monday wasn't that bad. It was very windy at times, at a fine snow fell every once in a while which would make it impossible to see more than 50 feet. But again, I didn't have any place to be at the time this was going on. Firewood needed to be brought in, but since I was only out there very briefly and then came inside, it wasn't bad.

Tuesday wasn't the worst day of the winter storms, but it wasn't the best. It just kept snowing and snowing, for about 14 hours. it was mostly a light and fluffy snow, so it was easy to clear, but at night it started to rain at night, which of course froze on top of the snow and just about everything else. Luckily I was able to clear a large portion of the snow that had fallen before the freezing rain.

Wednesday. The thawing, paired with a lot of raining. First problem I have is an unresponsive printer, but that's unrelated. But when I go downstairs to check on something, I notice there is a pool of water on my bedroom floor. It looked a lot like it was coming in from the outside wall, but luckily this was not true. Upon further investigation I realized that the last person in the bottom door the night earlier hadn't pushed on the door to close it, and so there was a small crack where the door met the frame, where water leaked through and then leaked through the wall into the bedroom. Without thinking, I opened the door to see why there was water leaking through it (since I've only had a problem like this once before, and that was with an extremely heavy rain). There was a large pool of water that had been dammed up by the slowly defrosting snow from the previous night on the other side of the door, which now rushed in to open door and onto the floor. I had slipped on some flip-flops and rushed outside to shovel the slush out of the way in an effort to get the draining water moving again. No problems in that area again, although my toes were now numb.

Later on in the day I was walking downstairs and noticed a damp spot in a corner where the dehumidifier was. I thought it might have just been pushed, and some of the water was spilled out of it, so I ignored it. Even later in the day, I realized that this was definitely not the case, since4 there was also a pool of water coming in from the same wall but a different spot. I also shrugged this off, since this has also happened before when it rained a lot. I did go outside to check out just how heavy it was raining, when I saw this:

The driveway covered in snow and ice, with a lot of water running down through it from the street.

A closer shot of what the flow of water looked like. I don't think you can tell how much water was actually there from the photos, but I took them already.

Oh ######, right? Using some old lumber and a shovel, I (along with a bit of help) cleared the mess of slush so that the rain water would stop following paths in the slush (toward the house) and start going where it was supposed to (drains and such that carried water away from the house). About an hour later, using the moving water to carry snow and ice downhill and out of the way, we had cleared 80% of what had to be cleared. However, that small puddle of water inside that I had just thought would stay small and I'd mop up later? That had grown into a small lake. Why? Well there was another small stream that was running through the yard that I had completely ignored. Again, the slush carried the water around the paths that drain water was meant to go, and directly to the house, where it pooled up between the house and the front porch. A new path was immediately carved for it to follow, which seemed to have taken care care of it, but then there was still an inch of water to clean up on the floor. Turned out it was actually easier to scoop of the water with a shovel and throw it into a wheelbarrow. Another hour, and two carts of water later, a majority of the mess was cleaned up.

I'm hoping the water is tinted green because of the cart, and not because of what was on the floor....

What else is new? Not much. Finally got the bits for my PC, so now I can use the Internet. Oddly enough, as slow as my old computer was, this new one runs the Firefox browser just as fast as the old one. I know how fast pages load have to do with your modem and stuff, but I was thinking it would be a bit faster. Oh well.

Near nothing new is happening that's airsoft related. Finally sold something substantial, but I still have lots more I want to get rid of. I think I'll just start a new thread with everything in it so I don't have to check multiple threads.

I'm also thinking of holding off buying anything airsoft related for a while. I don't really I think I use anything I have all that often enough to justify the money I spend on it. I think I need to find a place to skirmish, otherwise what's the point in having a bunch of toy guns?