Mid-South Gardening: The Merry, Merry Month of May, 0 by Riverland

Riverland wrote:
Genna I go for more test tomorrow. The Doctor thinks the back pain is from arthritis in the hip. He agrees that the pain down the leg is definitely from the degenerated disc. He wants a cat scan and xrays to tell more about the bones. Thanks for asking.

We are pretty sure our insurance is not going to pay anything. Fema is who carries the flood insurance. It will be a long recovery. We have really been blessed that as far as we know there is no damage to our insides. We will gladly deal with what is to be done now. We went over today but did not go inside since the porches were still under water. It looks like the water is down about 6 inches. Hopefully the water will have receded off the porches by this next weekend. If it does we will start cleanup and putting things back in the cabinets. The stove and refrigerator are up on cinderblocks with all the furniture. All the underparts of the doublewide did take on water so we will have to rip out all that insulation and look at things. We rode around in the boat and never saw any wildlife unless it flew, could live in a tree or water. We didn't go all over just to some of the areas that have a higher elevation but it was all under water. It was really easy to get lost since every visual that you are used to is under water.
What was really ironic when we got to the levee we didn't drive on it . We walked over it to get to the boat. The game warden saw us. Since we have property on the other side they have given us permission to leave the boat tied to the levee as long as we don't drive on the levees. Right behind the game warden on the levee are the national guard with 2 huge hummers driving on the levee. They stop us and want us to show them permits from the wild life and fisheries that allows us to walk across the levee. Go figure!! I know they need to patrol the levees but in hummers that probably weigh a ton with all the equipment and people. Two of them together? On our way out the WLandF Ranger stopped to talk to us about our camps. He was real sympathetic to everyone's dilemma. I know that their presence is also helping some to keep looters out although that is not the reason they are there, but Hummers? Give our poor levees a break.