SRD again, but with all the lightening around here I wouldn't be running anyway. I could have used a canoe getting to work today. All joking aside there are some places around here where houses are flooding again. It's just with so much rain falling so quickly and it's so flat here that any small low spot pools a lot of water and the surrounding houses/roads get flooded. I'm sure once it gets light out here will be some horrible  photos.

No knee pain going up/down the stairs so I'll probably do some running this weekend. Yay.

qotd: Do you like Country Music?  I don't normally, but I do like it when non-country folks do it, like the Stones, Neil, Elvis Costello, etc.  Been watching the Country Music thing on PBS, it's great.

Another short loop this morning. The dryer went out last night, so I took the whole thing apart about 8:30 last night to see exactly which part I needed. Everything looked good except for a massive amount of lint/dust on the motor and just everywhere in the thing. I cleaned it all out and put it all back together, reseated the drum and drive belt. It worked. It still makes a squeaking sound at first but seems to level out after a few minutes.

QOTD: I don't like Hick Hop; I don't like Pop Country. But I love groups like the Turnpike Troubadours, Flatland Cavalry, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Mike and the Moonpies, Reckless Kelly, Cody Jinks, Tyler Childers, Jason Broland, Cross Canadian Ragweed, and many others who create real music. You won't hear them on country radio. I'll have to check out that country music series. I hear nothing but wonderful things about it.

Keeping it short today, probably about 3 later this morning.

TBT: Saturday at NC 24 will be exactly 6 years since my very first ultra there in 2013 when I ran 12-hours.

qotd: I've been watching the Ken Burns series as well.  I haven't had a lot of exposure to country music per se and was surprised at how many of the tunes I recognized.  Of course I recognized a lot of the names after working in the B&N music dept for 8 years.

Keeping fingers crossed.  I'm at work, but this is a photo my DW just sent, taken from the front door of our house.  Our street and driveway are underwater.  The black thing in the middle of the street is a garbage can.  The water would have to go up another 12 to 18 inches before it gets into our house. Getting home tonight will be an adventure I'm sure.

Lived here 20 years through many multiple hurricanes, never have seen anything remotely like this. Yes....  we have flood insurance.

Sandy - good luck. Hopefully you and your neighbors make it through this undamaged.

 

This is a new term for me.  Is this a mish-mash of hip hop and country?  Sounds...interesting. 

Pretty much. There is a fair amount of this stuff out there right now with singers rapping, and in some cases, collaborating with rappers like Billy Ray Cyrus and Lil Nas X doing "Old Town Road". That is a pretty extreme case, but there is a ton of what I call "Douche Bag Country" like Florida-Georgia Line, Thomas Rhett, Jason Aldean, and pretty much anything heard on country radio. To me, the three mentioned previously are the Holy Trinity of everything that is wrong with Nashville right now. Mainly, these are songs about tailgates, Bud Light, and general non substantive subject matter that just plain sucks. Some would say that I have a very eclectic taste in music. I am just as likely to be listening to Iron Maiden as I am to Merle Haggard. To me, those things go together just fine because they have substance.

Good news !!! The water in front of our house is gone now. No water inside our house.  Also no water in our next door neighbor's house, which is good since we are watching the place for them while they are away, they've been on the phone with my DW a lot.

I might not have to sleep in my office.

Whether bureau said we got 14 inches of rain at our house between yesterday and today.  Lucky, 10 miles northeast of us they got 20 inches over the same period.